…As Ndoma Egba, Ebri, Jeddy, others dump PDP
From Judex Okoro, Calabar
NATIONAL Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has debunked allegations making the rounds that the leadership of the party is jittery over the Supreme Court’s ruling in favour of PDP governorship candidates in Akwa Ibom and Rivers States.
Oyegun made the remark while fielding questions from journalists shortly after his arrival at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar, enroute government secondary school, Atu, venue of the reception organized by the APC to welcome all newly-registered members into its fold in Cross River.
He said the outcry over the ruling so far has been that of his party’s individual members and does not in any way represent the party’s position.
His words: “The APC is not finding it difficult to accept the verdict of the Supreme Court. All we are after is to know the reason behind the ruling in the first place. No one can question the decision of the apex court.”
Welcoming the over 1,000 new members, he said the defection of prominent citizens from various parties into APC is a statement that the Cross Riverians have really embraced the progressives and the reform agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
“We are not the Ghana-must-go party, neither do we share dollars. We have started moving but we need men of good will to help us clear this country. Few years from now, we are going to have a progressive government in Cross River considering the high caliber of people who have moved into the party. Their presence would indeed usher in the desired change in the politics of Cross River State, nay Nigeria,” Oyegun said.
Prominent citizens of the state who were received into APC included former senate leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, immediate past commissioner in Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Hon Paul Adah, former governor of Cross River, Chief Clement Ebri, former chairman of PDP, Ambassador Soni Abang, former Cross River SSG, Johnson Ebokpo and the wife, Sen. Bassey Out and former PDP governorship, Mr Goddy Agba as well as Fidelis Ugbo, former LP governorship candidate.
In his remarks at the event, Ndoma- Egba said, “Democracy is about choices and alternatives. Today we join the APC, which is the viable alternative platform. Cross River as a one-party state is no longer tenable. Change has come.”
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