JUST IN: Ebonyi PDP slams defectors, says party better without them

The Peoples Democratic Party, Ebonyi State chapter, has lashed out at a former Senator who represented Ebonyi North Senatorial Zone, Obinna Ogba, and his followers who recently left the party.

 

The PDP said it was better off without the likes of the former senator.

 

The party’s chairman in the state, Dr. Augustine Nwazunku, stated this during an interview with the Newsmen, on Monday.

 

Earlier, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, Ogba and others reportedly defected to the All Progressives Congress last week.

 

 

Ogba announced that he dumped the PDP because of its leadership inconsistencies.

 

But speaking on Monday, the PDP chairman said the party was intact and was poised to defeat the ruling APC in the state in future elections.

 

He added that Ogba’s decision to leave the PDP for the APC was because he failed to win the PDP governorship primaries in 2022.

 

He said, “We in the PDP had decided to forge ahead without the distractions of these planted fifth-columnists but they are making the process of leaving the PDP for the APC become an endless programme of stage-managed noise-making.

 

“This is seven months after these characters betrayed the PDP and worked for the APC during the last general elections.

 

“If we ignore them, they will still come back tomorrow to make more noise.”

 

Nwazunku claimed that it was the PDP that gave Ogba the political exposure that he now enjoys which culminated in his going to the Senate for two terms from 2015 to 2023.

 

“If he thinks he can destroy the party which made him what he is today, we wish him good luck,” he stated.