Hundreds of All Progressives Congress supporters in
Rivers state have decamped to the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).
The latest defectors are from ward 4 in the
Emohua local government area in Rivers state, The
Sun reports.
Their defection comes just after a frontline
politician in Rivers state and one of the leaders of
the APC, Chief Emeh Glory Emeh, also dumped the
party for PDP.
Ex-commissioner, hundreds of APC supporters decamp to
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Speaking at a courtesy visit to the Port Harcourt
residence of Emeh, the leader of the delegation,
Pastor Tony Iwedi described their defection to PDP
as inspirational, based on the fact that Emeh had,
in the past years, been a source of livelihood to a
vast majority of the people in the council.
In his response, Emeh thanked the former APC
members for embracing Governor Wike and the
PDP in Rivers state, describing the governor as a
friendly and God fearing politician.
He said that “APC will be totally extinct in Rivers
state in no time.”
But in a swift response, the leadership of the APC
in Rivers has said that Emeh, did not decamp to
the PDP with its members.
Chairman of APC in the state, Dr. Davies Ibiamu
Ikanya, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt,
said not even relatives of the former commissioner
went back to the PDP with him.
Ikanya said: “Despite restraining itself from
dignifying the good riddance of Chief Glory Emeh
who recently crawled back to the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) after his mission as a mole
was uncovered, the Rivers state chapter of All
Progressives Congress (APC), is however compelled
to respond to the obvious kindergarten media
propaganda Glory Emeh has been conducting in the
media against the party.
“Not a few APC members knew that Chief Glory
Emeh had hidden motives when he decided to leave
PDP and joined the APC a little over a year ago
though the reasons he gave was his deep-seated
dislike for the person of Governor Nyesom Wike and
his politics as against his preference for Dr. Dakuku
Peterside’s style that tends to favour equity and
fairness.
“In less than 2 years of being accommodated in the
APC, it became obvious to Chief Emeh that there
were no secret activities by the APC that were
worth spying upon and turning in to the PDP.
Again, he could not get the kind of carte
blancheticket to do whatever pleased him.”
He added: “The result was that long before he
returned to the PDP, key members of the APC had
known and started keeping a safe distance from
him. Unknown to him, his meetings with the highest
echelon of the Rivers State Government and the PDP
were being carefully monitored.
“When eventually Chief Emeh decided to beat a
retreat back to the PDP, it only came as a surprise
to just a handful. The APC hierarchy was well
aware of his moves in advance. We were also aware
of his efforts to lure a number of APC leaders and
followers but they all rebuffed him.
“For the preservation of their persons, we will
refrain from naming those APC members but we
salute their stoic resistance to Chief Emeh. At the
end, he could not even convince his relation and
Personal Assistant (PA) to follow him to PDP.”
He continued: “Since Glory Emeh returned to PDP
empty handed and without anyone in tow, the only
visible thing he has succeeded in doing is being in
the front row with Gov. Wike at public events. The
other things he has resorted to in order to shore up
his well-known battered image in the eyes of his
associates is attempts at portraying Rivers APC as
being in disarray. This he is doing by planting
falsehood in the local and national print media
outlets.
“Yesterday (Tuesday), Chief Emeh caused to be
published a news item and photo of obviously
disorientated innocent villagers who did not know
why their picture was being taken. He claimed that
these hapless villagers were decampees from APC to
the PDP in his village. This is the kind of
propaganda Chief Emeh boasts about and claims to
be an expert in. We wish him luck but we are
convinced that he is not fooling anyone, not even
his present PDP masters.
“The APC wishes to urge Chief Glory Emeh to leave
APC alone as he relishes his new company. He did
not and still is unable to take any APC members to
the PDP. He lacks the clout, character and moral
pedigree to so do. His empty boast that APC will
soon be extinct in Rivers State is a cheap, pedestrian
lie only meant to burnish his decrepit image and to
please Governor Nyesom Wike and PDP leaders.”

AmeaCHEAT will soon change base....I heard dat he put his house on sale

Pdp will soon bounce back!!!!