The Peoples Democratic Party’s Ebonyi State chapter has characterised its members who defected to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) as political harlots and opportunists who failed to empower others inside the party despite benefiting greatly from it. Prof. Augustine Nwazunku, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi state, mentioned this when addressing the press about the party’s stand on the recent mass defection.
The member representing Ikwo/Ezza South federal constituency defected from the People’s Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress just two weeks after former senator Obinna Ogba and House of Representatives aspirant Obinna Nwachukwu joined the ruling APC in the state’s lshielu Local Government Area. Nwazunkwu argued that the party would be better off without the former senator and his co-defectors.
He said, ” their defection has not affected the membership of PDP in any guise, we held a meeting here last two weeks, one at the local government, the turn out was massive. Our members still remained robust .
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“Ebonyi State is not into one party system and it can never be, it is not he who makes the largest noise that contains the best substance.
“Government is there, the question is evidentially, holy scriptures says that by their fruit you shall know them. What is the change upon which you will now claim that the people are enjoying? People vote for party that gives them dividend of democracy, what dividend are we enjoying?
“There is no change, whatever you are enjoying, whatever that is satisfying you is personal, that is the hallucination they are using to deceive the people.
“Even the so called people who defected to APC, it was in a public domain sometime, that those who primarily worked for APC sometime have not been given adequate opportunities to benefit from the government, let alone those who are defecting newly, so they are lurely people in falsehood to put them in detention for not joining them early.
“APC in Ebonyi are serving their party and their core members, they have not brought out any evidence that they are ready to serve Ebonyians. They are rather using the common wealth to make their party and themselves comfortable”, he stated.
