IMO State governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, formally left the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) yesterday and pitched his tent with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The PPA leadership is threatening to drag the decampee to court. Speaking to welcome Ohakim into the PDP family, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua described the governor as "a treasure to PDP", adding that they were in Owerri to celebrate his return to the party, as well as his good work in Imo State.
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