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From Uchenna Inya, Abakaliki
The opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State has boasted that it will unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state during the next general election.
Leaders of the party in the state made the assertion in Onicha over the weekend while receiving Chief Felix Igboke, the state Commissioner for Project Monitoring and Evaluation, who resigned from his cabinet appointment last month.
The leaders—including Ugochukwu Obasi, the PDP Ebonyi South zonal Chairman; Chukwuma Igwe, the state party Chairman; Moses Idika, a National Ex-Officio member of the party; Ovuta Herbert, the party Chairman in the Onicha Local Government Area; Maria Ude Nwachi, the party’s Ebonyi South senatorial candidate for the upcoming general election; and Dr Eni Uduma Chima, the party’s candidate for the Afikpo/Edda Federal Constituency, among others—declared that the PDP has credible candidates for all elective positions who will defeat the APC.
Addressing the mammoth crowd during the reception, Obasi described the PDP as an eagle with a formidable force that will wrestle power from the APC come 2027.
“There is something that is happening. God has already shifted the thing that is happening and PDP is going to the government house. Those who have seen it on time are already coming coming to PDP.
“If it is raining, you use umbrella to shield yourself, if Sun is much, you use umbrella to protect yourself. So, PDP has come to stay.
” Can we take this message to our people to tell them that there is a new thing that is happening, that God is changing the narrative and that God is planting PDP in the government house. God is planting PDP in the red chambers, God is going to plant PDP in the green chambers, even in the house of Assembly, it is going to be PDP. The ship has left behind whoever that is not in PDP.
“If you have been observing what is happening in Nigeria, even in Ebonyi State, you will discover that APC has failed woefully, people are yearning for change, people want a party that will be able to deliver the dividends of democracy and PDP is the only party that can do that “, he said.
On his part, the local government Chairman of the party, Ovuta Herbert, said the party’s candidates for all positions have touched lives, describing them as an institution of governance in their own right.
“We have an edge over the present administration in the state because they have not done anything . You can see that people want change, real change and not this type they brought.
“The government has not commissioned any project since three years it came on board, not even one. But an individual, Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii (Anyichuks) have been going round doing good in the state , building and commissioning projects for individuals”, Ovuta said.
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Dr Eni Uduma Chima, the party’s candidate for the Afikpo/Edda Federal Constituency—who also resigned his appointment as the Chairman of the state’s Fertilizer and Chemical Company Board and relinquished his membership of the APC—described the defection of Felix Igboke as sabre-rattling and a sample of what is to come.
“This is home coming for some of us, we have done a lot of elections in PDP. I have three certificates of returns, Igboke also has certificate of returns and appointments gotten in PDP.
“It is better to stay where you will have peace of mind not where people will support you, give you ticket and sabotage it. An open foe may prove for a cause but a pretended friend is worst.
“So, it is better we stay in a place we are sure of, not people who will give you a ticket with one hand and sabotage it with the other hand. From the party we left, we have a party Chairman who boasted that he sabotaged his own party, we have the video and there was no query, no sanction, no reprimand whatsoever and that is not the way to go”, he stated.
He boasted that the PDP is giving power back to the people and expressed confidence that it will form the new government in the state come 2027.
In his speech during the reception, the former Commissioner for Project Monitoring and Evaluation and former Chairman of the Onicha Local Government Area, Felix Igboke, said he was rejoining the PDP, which he described as his home, alongside over 10,000 supporters across the area, including the Ohaozara, Onicha, and Ivo Federal Constituency and beyond.
Igboke also described the governorship candidate of the party, Chief Ifeanyi Odii, as unopposed and the incoming governor of the state.
He opined that he developed his political career under the PDP and resolved to return to the party after seeking greener pastures in the APC.
“I have been a Coordinator under PDP, I was a council Chairman of Onicha under PDP. We left together sometime ago to APC . I am back home and I want to tell you Mr. Chairman that both those that are here and those that are not here, I am defecting to PDP with 10,000 and above followers.
“We have our youths all over both within Isu community and across Isu. We are not here to brag, this is time for real business. I saw on social media, some persons saying anti-party, stop going out of the party.
“The master of anti-party is the APC state Chairman. He did it openly and nothing happened, he said it and nothing happened. He wants to be in charge of the party to himself and decide it’s affairs.But me Igboke believe in the masses and we are here back home to the party that we built together”, Igboke said.
