Series of defections have taken place recently with Bayelsan politicians moving from both the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ahead of next month's governorship election, another stalwart of the PDP in Bayelsa State, Mr. Matthias Kuroekigha, has dumped the PDP for the APC.
Kuroekigha, who formally declared for the APC, at a press conference in Yenagoa, said he was leaving with about 100 of his supporters.
This is coming just a day after the PDP at a rally in Yenagoa received about a thousand APC decampees.
The defectors, mostly delegates of the failed APC governorship primary which was marred by violence at the Samson Siasia sport complex, were led by former senior aide of Governor Dickson, Chief Alex Ekiotenne.
However Kuroekigha, who was a strong member of the PDP, was at Sylva-Igiri Campaign Organization, SICO, secretariat on Isaac Boro Expressway, where they were received into the party by the deputy director-general, SICO, Mr. Jonathan Omo.
The politician, who is a kinsman of Bayelsa State deputy governor, Rear Admiral John Jonah (retd), said he left the PDP because the current administration in the state had failed the people.
He berated the PDP administration in the state, saying for almost four years, the government had not been able to deliver on the needed dividends of democracy to the populace.
Kuroekigha said he and his followers decided to embrace change which the APC represents because they were confident that it is the APC that could rescue the state from the shackles of bad leadership, while claiming that virtually all sectors in the state were not properly handled by the current administration.