Enugu is agog as all is now set for Governor Peter Mbah and his political appointees to join the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday (today).
This was disclosed in a statement on Tuesday. According to the statement, those who received Mbah into the party are the Vice-President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas.
Others include the APC National Working Committee led by the national chairman, Nentawe Yilwatda, governors, ministers, federal lawmakers, and appointees, among others.
Various critical segments of the state, as well as Ohanaeze Ndigbo, have thrown their weight behind Mr Mbah’s decision to join the APC.
The statement said that the former chairman of the party in Enugu, Augustine Nnamani, maintained that the PDP has itself to blame for precipitating the mass exodus from the party.
The chairman said that the party “mistreated and betrayed the people of the South-East” and Mr Mbah by failing to recognise Sunday Udeh-Okoye as the national secretary, in line with established tradition in the party.
“The PDP chose a few people in Abuja over and above the South-East. Mbah has exited as spelt out in their region’s communique in May to leave the party if its choice was not respected,” the statement added.
It decried the crisis in the PDP and injustice to the region, which had cost the party one of the best-performing governors presently in Nigeria and reduced the PDP from controlling the five South-East states to losing everything.
It added that Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide in Enugu also applauded Mr Mbah “for taking the bold step of joining the ruling APC.”
(NAN)