According to Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, he chose to leave the Young Progressives Party (YPP) and join the All Progressives Congress (APC) because he wants the South-East to support President Bola Tinubu’s central administration.
Ubah made this statement on Thursday while visiting the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja with Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
He was grateful to the party’s leadership for embracing him.
Despite the party receiving minimal support in the South-East during the 2023 presidential election, Ubah praised President Tinubu for naming Dave Umahi as the Minister of Works.
“Our president is rewarding even those who didn’t vote for him, for that it will be very difficult for any man with a conscience not to look at the direction of the centre party.
“I don’t see anyone who will oppose my coming into the APC,” he said.
Ubah added that he consulted widely with his political family and critical stakeholders in the South-East before defecting to the APC.
“It is not all about talking, it is about doing, I believe in action, Mr President just take it from me; I am going to deliver.
“I have made my complaints to President Tinubu in front of the Senate President and he has graciously given me his words that he will support me.
“I want to be sincere; it has always been difficult for the Igbo people to key into the national party because of our sentiments and emotions.
“Our president is a politician who understands how it pains and how to console everybody. He has that capacity,” he said.
Ganduje, while receiving Ubah, said he was the biggest politician that had joined the party since he assumed office as the APC chairman.
“This is the biggest fish I have gotten,” Ganduje said.
He expressed optimism that with Ubah’s defection, the party would soon take over the South-East in the coming elections.