Day Nwogu joined APC

The former senator representing Abia Central Senatorial District on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the senate, Senator Nkechi Nwogu has defected to the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Speaking at the party secretariat in Umuahia after she was presented to the state executive council of the party, Senator Nwogu said that she has decided to move to a party with sound internal democracy.

Nwogu said that her former party had been suffering from impunity, imposition of candidates and high handedness by state governors, stressing that such is not what democracy is all about.

She decried the situation whereby state governors of the PDP were lords and think that they have the right to determine the fate of politicians, “It is one of the things that destroyed my former party”.

She said that the era when a man will sit down in his living room and decides what and who will run for elective positions from the political ward level to the local government up to the state level is gone forever.

The senator said that she has a strong believe that APC will not toe the line of destruction like the PDP which made its supposed big umbrella to be torn to shreds by those who believe they are gods.

She said that he had earlier been admitted into the party in Abuja, “But everyone knows that people do not join a political party except from their unit, ward, local government and the state chapters of the party.

So what I am doing today is to be presented to the party at the state level after being registered at my ward in Osisioma council area and being presented to the state executive council by my zonal chairman”.

Nwogu promised to be law abiding, respectful and be ready to work with the people she has met on ground in the party, “I believe that I will be a change agent and will also help to reposition the party for greater achievements in the state”.

She said that the uplifting of the party to greater heights will be done through hard work, “And not through slander, back biting, since Nigerians asked for change which has been achieved through the election of President Buhari, change we will give them”.

Nwogu said that she left the PDP because of injustice meted out on her, and that after waiting for them to realize their mistakes and apologize to her which they could not do, “I decided to leave to a place where I will be appreciated”.

In his welcome speech the state chairman of the Abia APC, Donatus Nwankpa said that the party is willing to accept people as members, stressing that they are not going to come and destroy the party.

Nwankpa said that they are still expecting more people to join the moving party, adding that Nwogu came on her own to join them without any prompting from any quarters.

In his own speech the former deputy governor of the state, Dr Chris Akomas said that the party is main opposition party in the state despite what anyone might say.

Akomas said that the state chapter of the party is blessed with theentrance of the calibre of Nwogu, adding that the world should know about the capture of such high calibre politicians and those making the state APC great.

He called for a reposition of the party towards 2019, saying, “We are talking about 2019 already, but we need to reposition the party before then and we should do that through preparing for the local government elections which may come at anytime, “So we need to be fully prepared for it so as not be caught unawares”.

Akomas said that the coming into the ruling party by Senator Nwogu shows that people have started seeing the light, stressing that this is just the beginning of better things to come for the ruling party.

The former deputy governor said that what is happening to the Abia APC is now the harvesting of avalanche of personalities, stressing that more prominent politicians are on their way into the party.

In his own contribution, the national chairman of the party, John Odigie Oyegun, represented by a BoT member, Sam Nkire said that said that it is great day for APC members, since he had asked them to fish for credible a member which is what they are doing.