...Says, it's good to be back home
True to prediction, former Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Mathew Urhoghide Monday returned to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), almost four months after he resigned his membership of the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) in May.
In an interview in June, Senator Urhoghide from Edo South Senatorial district had dropped hint of his impending return to the APC, shortly after he dumped the PDP when he confessed that he was under intense pressure from friends, associates and former colleagues in the APC to come over to the ruling party.
At APC Ward 2 secretariat on Airport Road, Benin, Senator Urhoghide who registered for the ruling party was received by the Ward chairman, Mr. Sunny Omokaro.
The politician, a founding member of the PDP, who had earlier visited the party's state secretariat to intimate the chairman, retired Col. David Imuse of his move, was later accompanied to the ward secretariat by Imuse!; two former deputy governors, Pius Odubu and Lucky Imasuen; Alhaji Gani Audu, running mate to Pastor Osaze Ize-Iyamu, the APC governorship candidate in the 2020 election and a horde of party supporters.
Amidst echoes of APC, APC, Senator Urhoghide remarked that he left for the PDP due to disagreement over some issues but was over it and happy to be back home to the ruling party.
Senator Urhoghide added: "When I resigned from the PDP in May, I said that I was going to join another party so long as I remain in partisan politics. After a careful evaluation of what is going on in Edo State now, I decided to go back to the party that I was a part of building. This is where I really have my own political friends and associates."
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He noted that he was not joining alone but was coming over with his teeming followers, emphasizing that there is no ward in the entire 77 wards where he didn't cite a project.
He said: "I have rejoined. I left because of disagreement but I am back to my roots I am a founding member. I am here for good. I am back home. I came to rebuild APC. I'll be part of any decisions that the party takes."
The ex-deputy governor said that he was happy that the returning senator who was merely "borrowed to the PDP from the APC" was coming back home, adding that the success of the former lawmaker during his eight years stint in the red chambers was because he worked with APC enery.
Imasuen said: Senator Urhoghide has done well. We are happy with him. He has returned home. We have wholeheartedly received him. He must come back home to APC where he tapped his energy from."
Speaking in the same vein, the state chairman appealed to other stray members who he insisted are either on exile, voyage and sabbatical to return home.
