Thunder Strikes PDP in Burutu as Azigbeotu Exits Party for APC

Thunder Strikes PDP in Burutu as Azigbeotu Exits Party for APC

Warri _____ Dissatisfied with the lack of unity and purpose that currently bedevil the party at the ward and Local Government levels, Hon. Enoch Azigbeotu writes to announce the withdrawal of his membership from the People’s Democratic Party in a letter which is attached here.

Enoch's resignation has thrown the PDP in his Seimbiri ward 4 and the Burutu Local Government Area into confusion and disarray. Enoch who has acted variously as a strategist and a campaign spokesman for the current chairman of Burutu LG Council, Rt. Hon. Godknows Angele, hinges part of his decision to resign from the party on what he describes as “the lack of inclusiveness in the system and the new practice of discrimination after the election season”. 

He regrets that after deploying energy, sweat and resources to assist the various office holders of the ward and LGA including Hon. Asupa Forteta, the member representing Burutu State Constituency 1 and his Burutu 11 counterpart, Hon. Pullah Ekpotuayerin in their respective elections, the party has only paid him back with ingratitude and derision.

Enoch Azigbeotu is an ally of Hon. Tam Brisibe and has acted as  Special Assistant (SA) to Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa when Hon. Tam Brisibe was the Chief of Staff to the Government of Delta State. He is a veteran in grassroots mobilisation and has led support networks at various times in all wards and units in Burutu LGA and beyond. Before the recent PDP governorship primary elections, Enoch worked meritoriously as the Burutu Federal Constituency/LGA Coordinator for the Olorogun David Edevbie Campaign Organisation. He also was the Burutu LGA Coordinator in the Delta Ijaw Frontline Volunteers for Edevbie, the foremost Ijaw support group for Olorogun David Edevbie during the primaries. Beyond this, he played actively as the  Burutu Local Government Coordinator of the Delta Unity Group (DUG).

Enoch Azigbeotu has been received warmly into the Delta State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC), his new political family. He is now the Deputy Convener of the formidable Ijaw support group, Delta Ijaw Volunteers (D.I.F) for Omo-Agege. 

Azigbeotu’s departure is one of the many defections that are likely to diminish the fortunes and chances of the PDP in the forthcoming general elections in the Burutu Local Government Area.