According to Platinum Times, six local government chairmen of Ebonyi State’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have quit and are planning to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Six of the 13 PDP local government chairmen in the state have resigned, and it has been reported that this could be related to the party’s recent defeat of Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii in the electoral petition tribunal in Abuja, which was presided over by Governor Francis Nwifuru.
Agbom Friday (Ezza South), Nwofe Philip Don (lzzi), Nwobasi Ude Chizoba (Ohaozara), Chukwu Micheal O (lvo), Ifere Sunday Bright (lkwo), and Ndukwe Orji Oka (Afikpo South) are the six PDP local government chairmen that left the party.
The PDP local government chairmen said they are leaving the party for personal reasons in a letter announcing their resignation that was made accessible to journalists.
Augustine Nwazunku, the PDP’s chairman for Ebonyi State, quickly responded, urging the people to disregard the development despite the fact that some of the six LG chairmen are not actively involved in the party.
He said,
“Those persons are acting haphazardly and getting themselves into anti-party activities, because there is a normal process for resigning in the party. And none of them are members of Ebonyi State caretaker committee executives to unilaterally jump up and start granting frivolous public discussion that they have done this and that.
“Many of them are no more members of our party. None of them are members of our executives. What they are doing is an informal trick to mislead the members of the public. For example, the chairman of Ezza South was sometime ago suspended by his ward and local government.
“They are either playing antics or dancing the music being played to them by someone elsewhere. As far as we are concerned, they are acting in their independent form, and so, the members of the public should not be mislaid based on that.”