Vice President Kashim Shettima and all APC governors gathered at Asaba yesterday to welcome Governor Oborevweri, formerly of the PDP, to the APC. 

This is probably one of the most extraordinary political decisions that have been taken in the country since the return to democracy, when every member of the Delta State PDP unanimously decided to leave their party, which had controlled Delta State for 26 years, and joined the APC

It will be recalled that some members of the APC left the party to join the SDP, citing a deviation from the shared vision of the party by the incumbent President of Nigeria, who is a member of the ruling party.

The Delta state governor is however citing the renewed hope agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the driving force behind their decision to join the APC. 

Governor Oborevwori probably had seen it all in PDP, a party that controlled every aspect of government in Delta state from 1999. They certainly should be counting the cost and probably had seen the best of PDP as a party, which may become moribund after its two early rivals, the AD and APP, came together with other parties in 2019 to defeat PDP for the first time in the Presidential election.