As the 2023 general election beckons, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, may dump the opposition party for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
This was the contention of a PDP chieftain and former commissioner, Prince Kassim Afegbua.
In a statement on Sunday, Afegbua called for the sack of the PDP National Chairman for his shoddy handling of party affairs, revelaing that three serving governors on the platform of the PDP, two from the North East and one from the South East, have concluded plans to dump the party for the ruling party.
Reacting to the recent defections of the senator representing Delta North senatorial district, Peter Nwaoboshi and the Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, from the PDP to the APC, Afegbua noted that power arrogance in Delta State was responsible for Nwaoboshi’s departure.
He said, “If you add salt to the injuries already inflicted, the defection of the Zamfara State governor, Mutawallen to the APC brings double jeopardy to an already bad situation.
“The Uche Secondus leadership looks apparently helpless and dithering like a lost sheep in the desert.
“I have every cause to believe there is possibly a huge conspiracy between the Uche Secondus-led National Working Committee, NWC, and the Caretaker Committee of the APC, to keep quiet while the opposition is being plundered through defection.
“I won’t be surprised if by tomorrow, Uche Secondus decides to defect to the APC for reasons that are obvious.
“As I write this, another PDP governor from the South-East is also warming up to defect. Also, another PDP governor from the North-East is warming up to defect, if the right leadership is not put in place to halt this drift. Save PDP now before it is too late.
“The time to sack Uche Secondus leadership is now, now and now. Postponing the evil day will only deepen the crisis of confidence that is presently on full throttle across the structures of the party.”
Recall that the governors of Cross Rivers and Ebinyi states, Prof. Ben Ayade and Engr. David Umahi, respectively, though serving their last tenures have since defected to the APC.
Ayade had reasoned that there was need for his state to be in the same party with government at the centre, as well as President Muhammadu Buhari’s sterling leadership qualities, hence, his defection.
Also during his defection in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, Umahi, who is the Chairman of the South East Governors Forum, said that the state was now 99.9 per cent APC.
Umahi said that it’s a matter of time, other PDP members in the state would soon join him.
