14 days after defecting to APC, Delta Gov Oborevwori meets Tinubu in Aso Rock
Nigerian President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has met with the Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
According to PUNCH, the governor arrived at the presidential villa premises at about 03:45 pm Tuesday, alone, marking the governor’s first encounter with the President since he defected to the governing party, the All Progressives Congress from the Peoples Democratic Party.
The Informant247 reports that the Oborevwori was, on April 23, 2025, detected to APC, becoming the first incumbent governor of Delta State to abandon the PDP since 1999.
His predecessor, Ifeanyi Okowa, Deputy Governor, Monday Onyeme, commissioners, local government chairmen, and the grassroots machinery moved en bloc to the APC after a closed-door meeting in Asaba.
Okowa was the PDP’s vice presidential candidate in the 2023 election.
Delta’s wave of defection follows similar realignments in Rivers and Cross River, trimming the PDP’s governorship map to ten states and shaking a region once regarded as a fortress for the opposition.
Source: PUNCH
