Edo South District: LP LGA, Ward Youth Leaders Declare Support for Sen. Imasuen’s Move to Join APC

By Reporter

The Senator representing Edo South Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Bernard Neda Imasuen, will be defecting from the Labour Party (LP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Democracy Day—June 12 with all the 77 wards LP youth leaders, along with the local government area youth leaders.

The move according to Senator Imasuen is to firmly establish the APC as the dominant political party in Edo South District. This latest fact emerged after a stakeholders meeting by the youth leaders who are also the foot soldiers for the ‘Obidient’ movement in their localities.

The Chairman of Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition, has already unveiled his plans to defect from the troubled LP to the ruling APC.

Imasuen who had attributed his decision to the ‘disarray’ in the LP, said he will officially join the APC on June 12, 2025

Senator Imasuen added that his decision is to guarantee better alignment of Edo South with the federal government development priorities under President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. He added that it was “…noting but a strategic decision and not opportunism.”

In just two years, Neda has to his credit, thorough legislative and community achievements, which includes the Federal College of Education, Abudu (Establishment) Bill, and resolution of over 20 public petitions, in the process, he was able to right some wrongs.

He has also sponsored the Federal Medical Centres Act Amendment Bill, 2025 to enhance their service delivery.

His light up Edo South project has ensured that over 50 communities have been lit up with solar street lights as well as provision of electricity transformers to communities that were put into darkness due to lack of, or damaged transformers.

Senator Imasuen has taken his periodic Medical Outreach to the reach of thousands of rural dwellers in Edo South. This is in addition to vocational training schemes; agricultural support programmes, and several rural training programs for traditional birth attendants; farmers and artisans for over 1,500 constituents.

According to reports, hundreds of students have equally benefited from his scholarships awards in the last two years of Imasuen’s stewardship.

The senator who spoke with Midwest Herald reporters last week, said he was joining the APC to help fast track the success of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, just as he pledged his support for the APC government, while charging Edo South people for stronger support for the administration of Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo.