Not fewer
than 5,000 persons drawn from APC, Labour Party, PPA and APGA defected at the
weekend to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Onitsha North Local Government
Area of Anambra State.
Addressing
the crowd comprising of major stakeholders, the Chairman of PDP in Onitsha
North, Chief Oraegbunam Anene, welcomed the defectors and assured them that the
PDP was being restructured from the national level in order to take over power
at the national level and Anambra State in 2019 and 2017 respectively.
He described
as unfortunate the incident that brought in APC at the national level to power
but reminded the ruling party that Anambra would remain a PDP state. He called on the state, local and
ward executives of the party to commence aggressive mobilisation of electorate
so that PDP can take over in the next governorship and other up coming
elections.
A legal
practitioner and Chairman of the PDP in Anambra East LGA, Thompson Chikezie,
recalled that the APGA-led administration in the state employed every dangerous
means including the use of Boko Haram insurgents to take over power from PDP,
but has failed to bring the change promised Nigerians. Dr Alex Obiogbolu, a PDP
chieftain, felicitated with the local government meeting, enjoining members
both old and new to close ranks to be able to win the upcoming governorship
election.
(Finacial
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