FORMER National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Rex Onyeabor, has defected to All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State.
The erstwhile PDP Scribe, who moved to APC with over 20,000 of his supporters at the weekend, explained that he left PDP because the umbrella of his former party was no longer working and he could not afford to stay under the rain further.
“I have been talking with APC in the past 18 months. Now, my mind is made up after thorough consideration of the political landscape in the country now. APC promised us change. I think we should join APC and become change agents. We should have made changes in PDP if Jonathan won, but he did not win. We are joining the person who won to change things.”
“You should not be a bad loser. We must join hands to move Nigeria forward. That is why we are joining APC to change things” Onyeabor said.
He recalled that in the 2015 elections, as the PDP campaign coordinator in Enugu state, he promised to deliver Jonathan 95 percent and fulfilled that promise. I assure you all that I will replicate the same feat in APC in 2019.
Receiving the entrants, the State Chairman of APC, Dr Ben Nwonye, said they were excited to be associated with such a political war-horse of PDP who they persuaded to come and join them to build APC and win elections in 2019.
Dr Nwonye recalled that the likes of former Senate President, Ken Nnamani and Senator Jim Nwobodo had earlier joined APC, stressing that he was happy to be part of the ongoing political revolution in the State.
“Since 1999, Enugu state was without opposition. It required people like this to make it happen. Politics is like soccer. You recruit your best. Year after year, you are gathering political eggheads. He is a technocrat. Technocrats know how party works. We will rely on him to make our party, APC, better in Enugu State” Nwoye said.
Other top party leaders at the ceremony included Adolphus Ude, the APC Deputy Chairman, Lolo Queen Nwankwo, Women Leader, Val Ikpa, the Zonal Chairman, Enugu East senatorial zone, Major General Chris Sunday Ugwu (Rtd) who represented Senator Jim Nwobodo and Tony Nwafor, a stakeholder in Nkanu East.