Based on the story earlier published by AFNEWS that more than 3,000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State have decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Abia State Publicity Secretary of the All Progressive Congress, Comrade Benedict C. Godson has come out to describe it as a moonlight tales.
Recall that in the report, the Abia State PDP Chairman, Hon. Asiforo Okere claimed to have received over 3,000 members of the APC and APGA in the state into the PDP at the Michael Okpara Auditorium.
Reacting to this claim by Hon. Asiforo Okere, the APC Publicity Secretary described it as a calculated dramatic and theatrical method to indirectly persuade and plead with the minds of the remaining uncomfortable members of the PDP in the state not to dump the party.
In his statement signed and made available to AFNEWS, Comrade Godson challenged Hon. Asiforo Okere to immediately produce the names of the prominent APC leaders that took their followers into PDP as contained in his fictitious, in-existent and ghost-mode 3,000 persons he claimed, noting that APC is ready to mention those of PDP and other parties’ members that recently dumped their parties for the APC, which include Dr Alex Otti, a strong force in APGA, the immediate past Organizing Secretary of SDP, Hon. Emeka Atoma, and a serving member of the Federal House of Representatives, representing Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency, Hon. Sam Onuigbo and their numerous followers.
Others include former commissioners of the PDP government, Chief Henry Ikoh, Obinna, Oriaku and Hon. Allen Ugochukwu and their followers among other notable Abia Politicians.
He maintained that it is very clear that National Assembly members and many State Assembly members in the state under the auspices of the PDP are gearing towards joining the APC as he labelled the PDP in the Abia State as a collapsing party engaged in fabrications of laughable stories full of self-deceit.
