Facts emerged on Friday that the All Progressives
Grand Alliance has compelled members of the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party who defected to the party
to sign an undertaking before they would be given
the party’s tickets.
Scores of the aggrieved members of the PDP had on
Tuesday shunned the reconciliation committee
headed by King Amalate Turner and picked the
tickets of APGA to fly the flag of the party to contest
the 2015 elections.
The PDP members such as a former President of the
Ijaw Youth Congress, Mr. Jonjon Oyeinfa, and a
former Commissioner in Bayelsa State, Zuwa
Kodugah, picked the tickets to represent their
various constituencies at the next general election in
the state on the platform of APGA.
Kodugah, until recently, was a commissioner for
State Capital Development under the administration
of Governor Seriake Dickson.
However, it was learnt that APGA accepted the
defecting PDP members on the condition that they
would sign an undertaking, promising that they
would not abandon the party when elected into the
state and national assemblies in 2015.
The APGA state chairman, Mr. John Sokare, while
intimating journalists on the development, said
though acts of defection by politicians was not new
to Nigerian politics, APGA had insisted that all flag
bearers of the party must sign an undertaking to
abide by the party’s constitution.
Sokare said, “We have laid out our conditions for the
state and National Assembly aspirants. In spite of
the fact that we are friendly and disposed to the
election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, we
asked them to abide by our party rules on
performance.
“We also asked them to develop a new disposition to
infrastructural development, women and youths
empowerment, and they should be accessible to the
people when elected into office.
“They will be formally made to sign an undertaking
on all of these and our disposition to issue of cross-
carpeting after being elected on our platform as a
party.”
On the claim that the mass defection of PDP
members into the fold of APGA was influenced by
the wife of the President, Patience Jonathan, Sukare
dismissed the claim as “fictitious”, insisting that
those elected as flagbearers of the party were
committed and needed a platform to actualise their
dream of contributing to the development of the
state.

With all due respect,I don't see APGA as a political party,its a sub-PDP, socio-political group just like TAN & the rest,but this time,with conglomeration of predominantly Igbos.