No fewer than 2,000 members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reportedly defected to the major opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC) in Igueben local government area of Edo State.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole who received the defectors led by Eronmosele Aisabor, used the occasion to reveal his administration’s transformation in the education sector, Leadership reports.

The governor said the Colleges of Education in Ekiadolor, has been upgraded to a degree awarding institutions- University of Education in order to cede people the opportunity of taking a teaching job. He said Igueben College has also been converted to a campus of the University of Education.

Oshiomhole promised the people of Igueben that in the next two and a half years of his administration, more transformation would be recorded and the future of the state would been completely replaced with politics of educating the people and not that of “wuru wuru”.

“I have not spent eight years only six and by the time I have spent eight years I would do more. So don’t listen to them when they tell you to decamp to a torn umbrella that has failed to produce any meaningful development in years. Did the umbrella build schools, roads and water? So ask before you act,” he said.

The comrade governor, who further urged the people to help rescue the country, assured them that he would not play politics of individual but politics of development. He said he would not listen to calls of individualism, and pointed out that Nigeria is failing because most of its leaders put themselves first before their people.

 “You must understand the basis for political contestations. The times are gone when people would vote without asking questions. The times are gone when the welfare of the few is seen as the basis for the decision of the majority. This is why I ask an open question: in the ten years of PDP, what can any of you count?” the governor questioned.

It would be recalled that on September 9, 2014, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, declared that it would prevail on Governors Rotimi Amaechi and Adams Oshiomhole to support the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid in 2015.

Meanwhile, on Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, also made his stand known against members of the state All Progressives Congress (APC) who defected to the PDP.