Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2016 governorship election in Edo state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu says since I left the PDP, a lot of stones have been cast at me.
He said that he never thought that his leaving the PDP for the APC would generate a lot of controversies as it was now n the State just as he added that he has been preventing a mass defection of members of his former party to the ruling party in the state.
Ize-Iyamu disclosed this yesterday in Benin during a media parley with journalists.
He said, “I am not desperate for political power, don’t mistake my passion for good governance for desperation, I am not a slave to an ambition and I have my reasons for being in politics and there are those whose politics as avenue to make money but for me the best place to make money is in business.
“I desire good governance for the people and I want a government that can deliver good governance and I really want a party that deliver good governance and I want to be part of the party that really access good government for he benefit of the people.
“It is been long that large proportion members of the PDP wanting to leave the party but I had been the one keeping them in the party. You see what happened during our resignation day. We were expecting about 1000 members across the state but the number tripled,”
According to him, though his defection has generated a lot of controversies in the state the media did not blow it out of proportion.
