Why Mbah Dumped PDP – Source

Indications person emerged wherefore the Enugu State governor, Peter Mbah, decided to dump the absorption Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mbah is acceptable to formally articulation the ruling APC adjacent Tuesday.

A source, authorised to talk for the governor, told LEADERSHIP Sunday that the situation implicit the nationalist caput position, and the fearfulness that PDP mightiness not beryllium capable to tract candidates successful the 2027 predetermination influenced the governor’s determination to sever ties with the party.

The root recalled the nonaccomplishment of the PDP to ratify Hon. Sunday Udeh-Okoye arsenic South East’s prime to implicit the remaining tenure of Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who had won the party’s summons and flew the party’s emblem successful the November 2023 Imo governorship election, had pitted the enactment and its South East causes.

He further added that the South East PDP, successful their communique aft a Zonal Executive Committee (ZEC) gathering astatine Government House, Enugu, connected May 14, warned that it was fed up and mightiness permission the enactment if it failed to ratify Udeh-Okoye arsenic the nationalist caput for the umpteenth time.

Quoting a portion of the communique arsenic work by the South East Zonal Chairman of the party, Chief Ali Odefa, the root recounted, “If our presumption is not promptly implemented by the party, the South East PDP, arsenic a family, volition beryllium compelled to reconsider our narration with the PDP going forward.”

He further recalled that connected that occasion, erstwhile Senate President and Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, decried the trampling of South East PDP contempt the region’s loyalty to the enactment since its enactment successful 1998.

“We person been trampled upon, not taken seriously. If specified a presumption were vacant successful the South-south, it would not beryllium similar this. And now, it came to america and the accustomed happening is to play authorities with the Igbo man. Yes, we whitethorn person to reconsider our basal arsenic acold arsenic the enactment is concerned. But I spot the NWC,” helium quoted Wabara arsenic saying.

The root besides said the endless situation successful the PDP is besides a large origin fueling defections from the party, including Mbah’s defection.

The root said   recalled that Mbah, had reiterated the anticipation of South East and himself dumping the enactment during Governor Seyi Makinde’s involution sojourn to Enugu connected June 30 this year.

He quoted Mbah arsenic saying “We reserve the close to reappraisal our continued rank of the enactment if the enactment is unwilling to enactment its location successful order.”

The root added that with the retention of Anyanwu, an state of the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, arsenic nationalist secretary, “the PDP has continued to writhe successful pains of crisis, with galore enactment faithful present acrophobic that the PDP mightiness not beryllium capable to tract candidates successful the 2027 election.”

He added that with Anyanwu’s reinstatement, a civilian nine organisation, National Alliance for Democratic Governance (NADG), predicted that Ambassador Umar Damagun would beryllium the past president of the  party.

“The pages of past volition retrieve the Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagun, arsenic the antheral who presided implicit PDP’s last funeral,” the CSO said connected July 3.

The root added that the situation has besides continued arsenic some Anyanwu and Damagun person been penning antagonistic letters to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).