Enugu PDP legislators to ‘dump’ party for APC

Some members of the National Assembly elected on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform in Enugu State may have concluded plan to defect to the yet be registered All Progressives Congress (APC), it was learnt yesterday.

A chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and supporter of APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, told journalists yesterday shortly after ACN held its congress in Enugu that many PDP members would soon dump the party for APC. Nwoye said that as soon as APC is registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the PDP chieftains would dump the party en masse for APC.

He said: “I can assure you that once the APC is pronounced registered, you will see massive defection from the PDP, massive defection from the ward to the local government to the state House of Assembly and even some serving executive members of this state, you will see massive defection all the way to the Senate and the House of Representatives, you will see massive defection.”

Nwoye, however, blamed the nation’s political and economic woes, as well as the insecurity of lives and property across the country on President Goodluck Jonathan’s lack of ideas to tackle the challenges. Stressing that Nigeria could no longer continue in the mess caused by bad governance, he called on true democrats to embrace the proposed APC.

Nwoye, a renowned human right lawyer, accused the Federal Government of deliberately planning to deny the people their freedom of speech through surveillance of phone calls. Reacting to money approved by the Federal Government for the victims of the violence that erupted after the 2011 general election , the ACN chieftain said that PDP was afraid of the next election, hence its decision to approve the money two years after the violence.

Nwoye said though he was not against the fund, he thought that the funds were slush money they use to perpetrate fraud. He also expressed dismay over the way the Federal Government is handling the nation’s security challenges.

On a purported court order obtained by some aggrieved members of ACN, Nwoye said that no order restrained the party from conducting congress in Enugu State.

He added that the purported order did not also restrain INEC and the State Security Service (SSS) officials from observing the congress. Nwoye said the injunction only restrained the caretaker committee of the party from parading themselves.

slimghost: Lwkmd. Abeg which Enugu?

slimghost: Lwkmd. Abeg which Enugu?

slimghost: Lwkmd. Abeg which Enugu?

Prof Corruption: A state without governor. Anything goes!

ngozievergreen: LOOOOL. Enugu is a one party state(whether its a good or bad thing), its not possible. It has been dwarfing opposition parties since 1999, infact all these APC members shd do better homework when they want to coax ppl into their dreams.

Personally, i dont av prob with ANPP, CPC, bt i have prob with the merging

ernpero okeke: GBAGUAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GBAGUAN!!!!!!!!!!!

abokinside: B4 nko! The pdp ship is sinking fast! We expect nothing less than 12 pdp govs and the entire lefislators from their states to decamp to APC. Niger, Rivers, Kebbi, Kano, joining soon!

slimghost: Lwkmd. Abeg which Enugu?