President Bola Tinubu is meeting the Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
The governor arrived at the presidential villa premises at about 03:45 pm Tuesday, alone, our correspondent observed.
Tuesday’s meeting is the governor’s first encounter with the President since he defected to the governing party, the All Progressives Congress from the People’s Democratic Party.
On April 23, 2025, Oborevwori became 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.
Feelers from the APC identified Governors Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom, Peter Mbah of Enugu, Aba Yusuf of Kano and suspended Governor, Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers, as four new converts expected to join the party in the coming weeks.
The PDP, Labour Party, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party are currently grappling with internal crises compounded by defections to the APC, which has left their parties in disarray.
