Over 500 members of All Progressive Grand Alliance from Isiala Ngwa North, South, and Osisioma Local Governments have defected and collapsed their party structures into the Peoples Democratic Party in Abia State.
Announcing their defection during a PDP stakeholder meeting held on Sunday, at Ikem Nvosi, in Isiala Ngwa South the Chairman of APGA Isiala Ngwa South, Mr. Fineface Oguobi, his Isialangwa North and Osisioma counterparts, Mr. Martins Onwuka, and Mr. Samuel Nkoro among others denounced their APGA memberships and noted that their decision to join the PDP is based on Governor Okezie Ikpeazu's developmental and infrastructural strides across the state.
Pleading to be admitted in the Peoples Democratic Party, former APGA members said they were deceived by Alex Otti who has been running from one newsroom to the other to tell people that he decamped to the APC with over 400,000 members. Describing him as a pathological liar, they said they cannot allow Alex Otti to move to form an opposition party into another, hence their decision to come back to the PDP having seen that what the former APGA Guber candidate told then about the Abia State Government, the Governor, and the PDP were all lies.
They Pledged their total support to the PDP.
Welcoming the former APGA members into the ruling party, the PDP, the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Dr. A.C. B Agbazuere has described the People's Democratic Party as the only redemption for Nigerians.
Dr. Agbzuere who hosted the PDP stakeholders meeting, donated relief materials to the party, reminded all that Abia is a PDP State and that they should ensure that the party continues to grow in lips and bounds.
Enumerating some outstanding achievements of the PDP led administration in the state under Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Dr. Agbazuere stressed on the need for all to join hands with the state Exco of the party towards a resounding victory at the National and state levels come 2023.
Contributing, the Special Adviser to the Governor on General Duties, Elder Erondu Uchenna Erondu, the Isialangwa South PDP L.G. A Chairman, Sir Edwin Ihejirika disclosed that the PDP has remained peaceful without rancor and acrimony. He also expressed hope that their defection to the PDP will take the party to an enviable height.
In his speech, the State PDP Chairman, Chief Asiforo Okere while welcoming the former APGA members drawn from Isialangwa North and South, and Osisioma L.G. A's commended them for taking the bold step to return to the party also assured them that the umbrella is large enough to accommodate everybody.
The meeting which attracted the member representing Isialangwa North and South Federal Constituency, Chief Darlington Nwokocha, the member representing Isialangwa North State Constituency, Chief Ginger Onwusibe, PDP State and L.G. A Excos, traditional rulers among others featured the destruction of APGA's register and membership cards, as well as the distribution of bags of rice, other, relieve materials to the 10 INEC wards in Isiala Ngwa South by the Chief of Staff.
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