About 4,385 members of the Labour Party have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the November 11 governorship election in Imo State.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the former Labour Party members made their decision known at an event which took place at the PDP state headquarters in Owerri, the state capital.
Lady Nkechi Manus Ogu, the former state Coordinator and former Women Leader of the Labour Party in Owerri zone, led the defectors into PDP. She expressed her heartfelt gratitude for coming out of stress after all her contributions to the former party.
Ogu assured that the defectors will do everything possible to deliver the PDP candidates in the November 11 election. She said that their members across the 27 LGAs and 305 wards decided to dump the Labour Party when it became obvious to them that the party’s governorship candidate does not possess the needed capacity to govern Imo State.
Ogu expressed anger at how new entrants succeeded in destroying the sanctity of Labour Party in the state and vowed to mobilise their people in the 305 wards to rally round the PDP candidate, Senator Samuel Anyanwu and his Deputy, Rt Hon Jones Onyereri to win the poll.
Receiving the defectors into PDP, the state Chairman of the party, Chief Charles Ugwu, represented by the State Organizing Secretary, Nze Law Biaduo, commended them for taking the bold step when it became convincing that Imo must be secured from collapse.
Biaduo assured the defectors that the party would accord them all necessary privileges enjoyed by every PDP member in the state and charged them to go into the villages and mobilise Imo people to bring back security, rule of law, peace and unity.
Senator Samuel Anyanwu, the Governorship candidate of PDP in the state, while addressing the new entrants, praised them for their boldness to be part of the success story of the state, and promised to carry everyone along.
He said: “under my government if elected next governor of Imo State, health centers that are in sorry state will be revived, the free education in Imo tertiary institutions which Gov Uzodinma abandoned will be activated, rural roads that are presently death traps will be rescued. Our government will realize all these projects without borrowing.”
