The allegation came as some of the new entrants to the AC yesterday told journalists that they cross-carpeted due to the absence of internal democracy in the PDP and promised to collaborate with the Governor Adams Oshiomhiole-led government in the state.

Agbaje told The Guardian yesterday that 24 hours after he decamped to the AC, his official car was demobilised through a tracking device he alleged was installed in some official cars in the council, adding that that was done by a son-in-law to the council chairman.

He said the contractor told him that his car was demobilised because the council was still owing him, but Agbaje said there were other cars which were not demobilised.

He, however, said that he remained loyal to the chairman and together, they would work to move the council forward irrespective of their political affiliations.

But efforts to reach the council chairman yesterday were unsuccessful as he did not pick calls put across to his phone and one of aides who refused to speak on the issue, said the chairman was not feeling well.

Speaking with journalists yesterday in Benin, some of the new entrants to the AC with more than 50 of their supporters, said they were impressed by the one-year-old government of Oshiomhole, especially in the creation of employment for almost 5,000 youths.

Speaking on behalf of the defectors, former Vice Chairman of Edo-Central of the PDP, Henry Okhoro and the PDP woman leader in the area, Mrs. Evelyn Igbafe, said they were no longer comfortable with the imposition of leaders in the party.

A statement signed by Igbafe reads in part: "At various levels of party organisation, 'the leaders' are imposed. The slogan of the local party leaders in such circumstances is that they have got 'instructions from above'. The rule of one man has replaced the party election machinery..."

Six council chairmen, two vice chairmen and some other party leaders from the three senatorial zones of the state, defected from the PDP to the AC at the weekend.