What We’ll Do To PDP Defectors – Enugu APC

Following the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) colossal defeat at the 2015 general election, there have been reports of an internal crisis in the camp of the party which has left some of its members seek greener pastures elsewhere.

In recent times we’ve seen ex-members of the PDP crossover to the APC, all thanks to the latter’s explosive victory at the polls.

However, the Enugu State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday said it would not admit any member of Peoples Democratic Party into its fold, Punch reports.

This was revealed by the Publicity Secretary of the party in Enugu State, Mrs. Kate Offor, while briefing journalists on the outcome of the party’s State Executive Committee meeting.

According to Mrs. Offor, the decision of the APC was as a result of rumours that some prominent members of the PDP in the state are plotting to defect to its party.

She noted that the protuberant members of the PDP plan to hijack key appointments meant for the state at the national level by capitalizing on their ‘high profile’.

Mrs. Offor warned that the party would not hesitate to sanction any member found to be involved in unauthorised moves to admit PDP members into the party. According to her, the PDP chieftains who intend to join the APC intend to “reap where they did not sow”.

She said, “At an enlarged meeting of the State Executive Committee of Enugu State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, we unequivocally resolved that the membership drive aimed at enlisting Professor Barth Nnaji, Chief Jim Nwobodo and co into our great party be stopped forthwith. 

“For us it is medicine after death, given the shameful result we recorded in the presidential and governorship elections, where we got less than three per cent and 10 per cent of the total votes cast in Enugu State respectively.

“Accordingly, we are outraged that some elements without authorisation or due process had already held sinister meetings with Professor Nnaji in his Umuode village and if not stopped will head to God knows where.

“We hold Professor Nnaji, robotic engineer, and our elder statesman, Chief Jim Nwobodo, and other eminent sons in very high esteem, however, we frown seriously at clandestine moves of some people reaping where they did not sow.”

There are speculations that ex-governor of old Anambra State, Chief Jim Nwobodo, a PDP chieftain in Enugu State and Prof. Barth Nnaji, a former power minister are planning to move to the APC.

Meanwhile, the PDP crisis at the federal level continues to soar as the National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, has been highly criticised for failing to deliver at the just concluded 2015 general elections.

Several bigwigs of the party are blaming Mu’azu for the loss and demanding his resignation, but the national chairman has repeatedly fired back at his critics that he would not resign despite the pressure being mounted on him to do so. He however recently called on the party to remain calm and move forward.