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Ndoma-Egba, Otu, others defect to APC
February 14, 2016
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National
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on
Saturday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State received a former senate
leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba as well as a former governor of the
state, Mr. Clement Ebri and Senator Bassey Otu to the party.
Odigie-Oyegun,
who received over 1,000 defectors mainly from the Peoples Democratic
Party, at the Government Primary School in Atu, Calabar-South, said the
party was ready to take over the leadership of the state in the next
general elections.
Other notable personalities that defected
included a former representative of Cross River State on the board of
the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr. Paul Adah, an ex-PDP state
chairman, Ambassador Soni Abang, a former governorship aspirant of the
PDP, Mr. Goddy Jedy-Agba, a former Labour Party governorship candidate,
Mr. Fidelis Ugbo, a PDP governorship aspirant in the last election, Mr.
Francis Bullem, another candidate for the Progressives Peoples Alliance,
Mr. Goddie Akpama, among others.
[/b]Odigie-Oyegun said the
defection was a signal that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration
was moving in the right direction.
He said, [b]“What
these wonderful people are doing here is to attest to the fact that the
President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is doing the right thing.
These people are the shakers and movers of the politics of Cross River
State. They are declaring that they are agents of chage.
“We
do not have Ghana-must-go sack to give to people but as a party, we
believe that the nation must be governed with the thought of the people
in our minds. This is the time for the people of this country.”
Odigie-Oyegun
personally handed the party’s symbol (broom) to Otu, Ndoma-Egba and
Jedy-Agba on behalf of defectors from Cross River south, central and
northern senatorial districts respectively.
National Vice
Chairman of APC in the South-South, Mr. Hilliard Etta, said the
defectors had shown by their action that the era of impunity in Cross
River State was over.
Etta said with the successful defection of the bigwigs, the PDP in Cross River State has become an empty party.
Earlier
on arrival at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar,
Odigie-Oyegun said the party was not jittery over the Supreme Court’s
ruling which favoured the PDP governorship candidates in Akwa Ibom and
Rivers states.
The Supreme Court had recently ruled in favour of
governors, Nyesom Wike and Udom Emmanuel, who were the PDP candidates in
the 2015 governorship elections in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states
respectively.
According to him, contrary to insinuations that the
party is finding it difficult to accept the apex court ruling, the
party only desired to know what informed the judgement.
He, however, noted that the outcry over the ruling so far has been that of individual members and not the party.
He
said, “The APC is not finding it difficult to accept the verdict of the
Supreme Court, all we are after is to know why the ruling in the first
place. No one can question the decision of the Apex Court.”
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