Owie Returns To PDP, Backs Obaseki’s 2nd Term Bid

By Chuks Ekpeneru

Former Senate Chief Whip, Sir Roland Owie, has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seventeen years after he dumped the then ruling party.

Owie, who was National Leader of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), said the PDP has changed while APC has now adopted the same style of impunity.

He further urged his supporters to work for the re-election of governor Godwin Obaseki.

He re-joined the PDP in his home town of Ilobi-Isi in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State.

“I have spent the better part of the last 17 years outside of the PDP family – save for a brief return between 2011 and 2015. Recent developments in the polity of our dear nation have reignited my conviction to realign with positive and progressive mainstream political forces on a rescue mission.

“Impunity came into the PDP, the leadership became abusive, vindictive and all we were hearing was no vacancy in government house, no vacancy in presidency to the extent that a sitting governor was dregistered. But PDP has woken up because the APC has adopted the same style of impunity to the extent that the party will be saying it is the high court, court of appeal and the supreme court. APC is dead.

“Over the past 15 months, I have been consulting with political associates, former colleagues and Elder Statesmen on the need to get our Nation back on track. A recurring issue that emanated from that consultative process was the need for all founding members of the PDP to return to the Party so that it can achieve its strategic goal of emancipating Nigerians.

“Therefore, today I am returning to the PDP, the party I can call home, with a keen sense of purpose and a mission to work with the leadership and members in developing a sustainable developmental blueprint for Nigeria and jealously guarding the implementation of same.

“Because all politics is local, I must add that on the home front, my return to the Party would also ensure that Governor Godwin Obaseki is re-elected for a 2nd term.

“Beyond the continuity in the progressive institutional policies,  commendable and visible physical developments accomplished by the Obaseki-led administration, his second term would engender equity and co-existence, as the Governorship would then rightly move to Edo Central Senatorial District in 2024.”

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