Enugu Assembly Member Debunks Defecting To APC

The lawmaker representing Igboeze South State Constituency in Enugu State House of Assembly, Mr Harrison Ogara, on Tuesday, debunked reports that he was defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Ogara, of the Labour Party, was reportedly set to formally join the APC this Saturday. Ogara told newsmen that he never planned defection, let alone to the APC.

In his words, “I don’t know where they got the information. I feel so embarrassed. I had to go and search for it, look at the details of those posting it, but I discovered it’s being done by APC e-rats.

“I just think people want to preempt and see what I will say. But I want to say it clearly that I am still in the Labour Party, and my confidence is that the Labour Party will still be there any day, any time.

“Why should I defect to APC? That is the first question. You must have a reason for defecting to any party. If I see what APC is doing and it is to the detriment of the people, it shows that their ideologies don’t align with mine, so I have no reason to do that.”

Ogara further clarified that he would not join the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the state. According to him, “Some were saying PDP, and I asked, ‘Why PDP? PDP rejected me ab initio, and I found a place where they said Come and contest.

“I contested and won. Why should I leave the place? It will amount to moral bankruptcy to abandon the party that made you what you are.

“Assuming that your house is not well-built, you stay put and rebuild your house, not going to other people’s houses. It is a lie from the pit of hell; I have no reason to move. I have integrity for myself.

“Why they are moving from one party to the other is not that the other party is performing; it is the fear that elections will be rigged. You want to go and join them to write the results. Where is the morality in you?”

Enugu Assembly Member Debunks Defecting To APC is first published on The Whistler Newspaper