Professor Julius Ihonvbere, a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and two-time gubernatorial candidate in Edo State, has defected to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
In an address to his teaming supporters who gathered in his country home at Uzebba, Owan West local government area, the professor of Political Economy and special adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Projects Monitoring and Implementation, chided the PDP for lacking the democratic ethos and vision needed to pilot an emerging democracy like Nigeria.
Ihonvbere, who has been repeatedly denied the opportunity to govern the state by the party’s acclaimed godfather, Chief Tony Anenih, told the people that his coming into the ACN was to show that he had been fired by the courage of his conviction that a people driven democracy is the only solution to Nigeria’s multi-faceted problems.