The leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ebonyi
State chapter on Friday said Governor David Umahi and former governor of Abia
State, Orji Uzor Kalu can never defect to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP,
ahead of the 2023 general election approaches.
The Party gave the assurance in a statement signed by its
Publicity Secretary, Ogbuatu Chidi Simbad and made available to journalists in
Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.
The statement reads in part, “The former governor of Abia
State Chief Orji Uzor Kalu and governor of Ebonyi State Chief David Umahi is
not desperate to return to PDP”
The APC leadership was reacting to a rumour making the
rounds in the southeast zone that Umahi and Orji Uzor has perfected plans to
dump the party for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ahead of the 2023 election
in the country.
“We in Ebonyi APC wish to say that the news is not only
fake, laughable but also gibberish and jaundiced as the Chairman of Southeast
Governors’ Forum, the Leader of our great party, All Progressives Congress APC
and Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Nweze Umahi, has at no time and will
never plan to return to People’s Democratic Party PDP.
“Umahi’s defection to the national party did not come to him
as stupefaction, neither did he join for selfish enrichment. The defection was
a well-thought movement that was decided in the greater interest of Ebonyi
State in particular and the Southeast in general.
“Umahi saw the need to toe the line of the former
nationalists like Late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik of Africa) and others from
Southeast who had always believed in the politics of the centre, consequent
upon his decision to take our dear state and Southeast to the grid of national
politics.
The party said the South-East zone has a greater chance to
succeed in APC, especially as the 2023 general election approaches rather than
in PDP and called on the citizens of the zone to support the APC administration
led by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Southeast zone has brighter chances and more promising in
APC than in the PDP. The zone has partnered with PDP for 16yrs with nothing to
show for it. Umahi defected to APC in order to join hands with a selfless leader
President Muhammadu Buhari and other well-meaning Nigerians in taking Nigeria
to the next level.
The leadership of the APC in Ebonyi State said the
South-East zone has benefited so much Under President Muhammadu Buhari’s APC
led government, adding that “Every part of Southeast has benefitted in
infrastructural development and the only way to appreciate Mr President is to
join him in the next level transformation agenda, and that is the leading
reason Umahi defected to APC” the party said.
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