No fewer than 2,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Etsako West Local Government are set to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

They said on Monday in Benin that with the focused governorship candidate of APC, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and his running mate, Mallam Gani Audu, an eminent son of Etsako West Local Government; Edo State would be in safe hands from November 12.

The PDP defectors cut across the six clans of Etsako West Local Government comprising Auchi, Uzairue, Aviele, South Ibie, Anwain and Jagbe.

The PDP members, through their spokesman, Prince Yakubu Isah, told reporters that they were tired of the propaganda of the Godwin Obaseki administration.

They said: “We have studied the administration of Obaseki in almost four years and come to the conclusion that it is a colossal failure.

“At a time, we were hopeful that our party, the PDP, would salvage what was left of the state, by producing the next governor to turn things around, but we were dumbfounded that the PDP leaders compromised and accommodated Obaseki.

“So, we are left with no choice but to align with our son, Hon. Gani Audu, the running mate to Pastor Ize-Iyamu.”