Big Defection Rocks PDP As Ex-Guber Aspirant, Former Lawmaker, Ogbaga, Others Move On

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has continued to lose its prominent members to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi state.

PDP’s prominent members who just left the party for the APC are Hon. Sylvester Ogbaga, the former lawmaker representing the Abakaliki/Izzi Federal Constituency and former governorship aspirant in the 2023 general elections.

Sylvanus Ngugi Ngele, a former senator and ex-member of the PDP national working committee, and other executive members joined the ship, The Punch reported.

According to Vanguard, the defection ceremony was held on Saturday, May 4, at the Abakaliki local government headquarters, Nkaliki.

The two PDP bigwigs who spoke at the event said that their reason for dumping the opposition was that the party could not produce a governor from the Izzi clan, a feat the APC has achieved. Ogbaga and Senator Ngele said such development aligned with the state’s existing equity charter.

They commended Governor Francis Nwifuru’s administration, which was anchored on the need for the people’s charter, adding that it was their main reason for joining the APC. They said the move would bring more democratic dividends to the state’s people.

Some prominent members of the PDP in the Abakaliki LGA and Victor Nwoko, the lawmaker representing the good people of Abakaliki North in the state house of assembly, were welcomed and received in the APC last Monday, May 29, when the state’s first lady, Mary-Maudlin Nwifuru, visited the council.