Ikiogha, an ally of former President Goodluck
Jonathan, is known to be a trusted and
dependable ally of Governor Seriake Dickson, was
one of the brains behind the emergence of
Dickson as governor in 2012.
Indications of the frosty relationship between
Dickson and Ikiogha emerged when the governor
removed him in controversial circumstances as
his Chief of Staff, and redeployed him to the
Abuja Liaison Office.
Ikiogha's loyalists claimed the redeployment had
heavy political undertones and that it was aimed
at easing him out of the mainstream politics of
Bayelsa State.
The former Chief of Staff, who spoke at a news
conference in Yenagoa on Thursday, said he was
leaving the PDP along with thousands of his
supporters.
He said he had already found a home in the APC
since the day he decided to join the fold of the
progressives.
He said his constituents, for whom he has lived
and to whom he dedicates all of his political
victories, had agreed that he leave the PDP.
"I recall in one of the meetings that led to the
final decision to quit, how my supporters
reminded me that the PDP I helped to form and
nurture was no more the same,” he said.
"They said some hawks had hijacked the party,
making it very glaring that it was a house in
tatters, a divided house made of men who were
only driven by their selfish ambition.”
He regretted that the PDP has sadly drifted from a
well-organised family to a congregation of
betrayers and the deceitful.
“It is clear that the party is gradually marching
for destruction,” Ikigogha said, adding that
unfolding events have proved him right and that
he is happy he chose to leave.
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