‘I have not decamped,’ Adolor Okotie-Eboh declares

Chief Adolor Okotie-Eboh says he has not defected to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State that he remains a staunch member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State.

Reports emerged on Tuesday that Chief Okotie-Eboh and a number of his followers had left the APC at the visit of former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to the State.

“Its not true,” Okotie-Eboh told TheNewsGuru (TNG); stressing: “I only accompanied my friend, Kwankwaso, on a courtesy visit to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and nothing more than that”.

Kwankwaso, a PDP presidential aspirant, paid a consultation visit to Governor Okowa and Delta PDP stakeholders at the Unity Hall Government House Asaba with the APC Chieftain in his entourage.

“I have not decamped. Kwankwaso is my bosom friend, and I am still a member of the APC. If and only if I am going to decamp, it would be made official,” he told TNG.

Addressing issues bothering on the current crisis in the Delta APC, Okotie-Eboh said, “The whole issue is being handled by the APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomole.

“I understand there is a panel being set up by the National Chairman that will be coming to Delta to carry out harmonization of the party. I believe that will happen next week”.

Speaking on the presidential aspiration of Kwankwaso, Okotie-Eboh said, “Anybody is free to aspire for any political position, and Kwankwaso’s case is not different.

“Like I said earlier, he is my friend and I only accompanied him since he was in my State”.