Bayelsa senator Sunday Agadaga defects to APC, says PDP in shreds

Sunday Agadaga, a senator representing Bayelsa east, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Agadaga announced his defection in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and read during the plenary on Wednesday.

The letter was titled “Notice of resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party and formal movement and defection to the All Progressives Congress”.

“As the saying goes, change is the only permanent thing in life,” the senator wrote in his letter.

“Indeed, as the Holy Scriptures remind us, to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens. I believe that the time for change in my political sojourn on earth has come.”

He said the decision to leave the PDP was not taken lightly, noting that his political career had flourished under the party’s platform.

“This tough decision was made even after my appointment as permanent secretary,” he said.

“And this was at a time when permanent secretaries were, even though not so permanent, but were very prominent.”

Agadaga recalled his tenure as executive chairman of the Bayelsa state universal basic education board during the administration of former Governor Goodluck Jonathan.

He also recalled that he served as a special adviser under Seriake Dickson, another former governor in Bayelsa state and chief of staff Duoye Diri, the incumbent governor.

“I wish to express my profound gratitude to God Almighty and to my supporters in the then Peoples Democratic Party for the opportunity given to me to serve in those capacities,” he said.

“The fact that I stand today as a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is due to the benevolence of the then Peoples Democratic Party when it was intact and the goodwill of numerous well-wishers.”

He said internal issues within the PDP influenced his decision to leave.

“However, it is both astonishing and deeply disturbing that the once proud and largest political party in Africa has been turned into shreds due to internal wranglings and irreconcilable differences at both the state and national levels,” he said.

“Taking cognisance of these unhealthy political developments within the Peoples Democratic Party as it is today, and after wide-ranging consultations, I have finally arrived at the inevitable conclusion and reasoning that progressivism, thinking progressive, beginning progressive, and acting progressively is the only way to renew the hope of all Nigerians in Nigeria.

“I am therefore constrained to formally declare my resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party and hereby announce my defection to the All Progressives Congress, which will take effect from today, the 29th of October, 2025.”