No S’East Gov Defecting Again, Says PDP

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has assured that none of its Governor from the South-East defecting to another party, Ekohotblog reports.

This is coming after the speculation that it is about to lose another governor from the region to another party.

The National Vice Chairman of the party in the zone, Chief Ali Odefa, during a stakeholders’ meeting of the party in Awka, spoke against the backdrop of last year’s defection of Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Dave Umahi, to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

He, however, said there was no cause for concern over the strength of the party in the South-east.

Giving a report on the state of the party in the zone, Odefa said: “Anambra is fully a PDP state. With two senators and six House of Representatives members from the state, you will know that Anambra is PDP.

“Enugu is PDP, Abia is fully PDP too. You may have heard one rumour or the other, that a governor from the zone is planning to leave, but it is not true. No governor is leaving PDP. We all know what happened in Ebonyi and we are happy that the governor there left. We are not feeling any void at all; the state still remains a PDP state.”

Odafe urged PDP members in the state who had filed suits against the party to immediately withdraw them.

He said the aim was to ensure that the party went into the forthcoming 2021 governorship election in Anambra State as a united house.

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“We are calling on all of you here and the ones that are not here to go and withdraw all your cases in court and let’s come home and resolve whatever differences we have. We may not all agree with ourselves, but because of the interest of the party, we must ensure that we work together.

“I am happy with the level of maturity among the contestants. We will bring people to learn from what you are doing here. Save for misunderstanding, no state is more PDP than Anambra. A pioneer founder is from here, and I know that PDP will get to the Government House again.

“If we work hard, we will be in the Government House next year. I am very confident about this. It is simple. We want to bring transparency in the primary election processes. The process must be free and fair. We know that if the process is transparent, contestants will not work against the party during the election,” he added.