A political Tsunami is set to hit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta state, as over 450 former Councilors who served in the 25 Local Government Areas of Delta State between October 2014 to October 2017 (5th Assembly) set to dump party over failure of the state government to completely pay their severance.
The councilors in a meeting held in Asaba, the Delta State capital, lamented the inhuman treatment being meted on them by a government led by their own party.
They noted that since the state government led by their own political party failed them, they will soon join another political party that will pay the balance of their severances when elected.
The councilors elected under the umbrella of the PDP who were across the state, said they have harnessed every peaceful means for the severances to be paid but the state government had been adamant, giving them failed excuses all the while.
The ex-councillors through some of their representatives, said they had met with the ALGON chairman sometime in December, 2022, and he pleaded with them to jettison their planned protest and promised to pay them their severances in full but only a paltry part payment of N500,000 was made.
The protesting ex-ouncilors, who did not disclosed the political party to join, however declared: “We have harnessed all possible avenues to ensure that the state government led by our own party men pay us our severance in full had failed. We have no option than to align with a political party that will pay us our severances in full.