Political tsunami as 8,000 defectors join APC in popular Nigerian state, see details

• Membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abia issue chapter, has risen with the addition of vulnerable Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) chieftain and industrialist, Kelvin Jumbo Onumah
• Talking after Onumah’s official reception, Kingsley Ononogbu, the chairman of APC in Abia issue, appreciated the “influx of well-known participants of different parties into the APC since after the 2023 general election”
• Legit.ng experiences that in the southeast, the APC on the second controls two (Imo and Ebonyi) out of the 5 states in the space

Legit.ng journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of experience holding politics, elections, and governance in Nigeria.

Umuahia, Abia issue – Orji Kalu, the senator representing Abia North, has got over 8,000 folks that defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), from other political parties.

As reported by The Solar, Kalu expressed pleasure with the style.

Talking on Friday, January 10, while receiving the defectors led by Patrick Ikechi Anya and Kelvin Jumbo Onumah, Kalu expressed his pride with the mass defection even supposing the party is no longer in strength in Abia issue on the second.

The vulnerable governor acknowledged:

“Onuma has no question been a a success businessman who has touched so many lives as a private citizen and I reflect there would possibly be no person who would no longer fortify him as he’s becoming a member of APC.

“We ought to peaceful be in authorities to abet our folks the extra and that shall be performed by the APC which is a giant party and the most effective party in Africa.”

Kalu told the original entrants to endeavour to bring original participants to the fold in teach that the party will acquire the 2027 governorship election in the issue.

2027: APC chair optimistic

Meanwhile, Kingsley Ononogbu, the chairman of APC in the issue, vowed that the party would rob over the leadership of Abia in 2027. The APC chief promised that his party would provide extra dividends of democracy for Abia folks.

Ononogbu noted that the APC is now extra united and ready to rule the issue in 2027. Against that backdrop, Ononogbu lauded Senator Kalu.

APC’s flag and broom had been therefore presented to Onumah and other defectors.

In his speech, Onumah acknowledged that he joined the APC to entice style to his folks of Arochukwu/Ohafia federal constituency to boot to Abia North at mountainous and furthermore to add imprint to the APC.

Diversified chieftains of APC who spoke on the match included Obasi Uba, Patrick Anya, Emma Nwosu, Ogboso Ojisi, Uche Ogboso, Mrs. Nnenna Obewu Onwuka, among others. All of them promised to galvanise fortify in their respective areas to construct toddle APC wins Abia issue in the 2027 general elections.

2027: High PDP governors would possibly presumably maybe defect to APC

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that some governors who are participants of Nigeria’s significant opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP), would possibly presumably maybe defect to the ruling APC.

The chairman of the Innovative Governors Forum (PGF) and Imo issue governor, Hope Uzodimma, is imagined to be fascinated in regards to the wooing of the governors as fragment of moves to enhance the flit of his party.

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