Imo Lawmaker Says 40 PDP Lawmakers, Two Governors Set To Decamp

…Urges Party To Expel Wike, Anyanw

The member representing Ideato North and South in Imo State at the Federal House of Representative, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere has revealed that about 40 PDP Lawmakers and 2 governor’s are set to dump the party if the internal crisis ravaging the party is not brought to rest.

The fiery lawmaker made this revelation while addressing journalists and supporters at his country home of Akokwa in Ideato North local government area of the state.

The revelation is coming days after the former governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa who was also the running mate to former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the 2023 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar decamped to the All Progressive Congress along with the Governor of Delta State, Sheriff Oborevwori.

Ikenga while speaking during a live broadcast urged the PDP National Working Committee, NWC, to urgently take steps towards addressing the imminent danger.

He lamented that all the founding fathers of the party, if all of them were alive today seeing what is happening, will be crying over how the once biggest opposition in Africa has been turned into a political dog that barks without biting.

Ikenga further stated for normalcy to return to the party, the party’s acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum should be removed and replaced with a candidate from the North Central.

He also prayed that former governor of Rivers State and the Minister of the FCT, Nyesome Wike and the party’s National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu be expelled from the party forth with.

He said: “It’s very important to start on this note that those days we are so scared that will come are now here with us as it had to do with your position and the PDP. We cried, we fought, we begged the PDP leaders to stand up and rescue the party.

“That you have an impostor in the person of Umuadamagu, and a treacherous political human being in the person of Samuel Anyanwu. PDP governors played with this, PDP stakeholders played with this, we said if the right thing is not done that this party will disintegrate before our own eyes.

“That if Alex Ekwueme, Solomon Laah, Adamu Shiroma and all the founding fathers of this party that if all of them are alive today seeing what is happening, that they will be crying that how the once biggest opposition in africa has been turned into a political dog that bark without biting.

“The threat that these men portend who warned of the consequences today. Look at the state of our party, our governors are jumping ships. Our lawmakers are jumping ships. Our senators are jumping ships. Our members are jumping ships in different parts of the country. But come to think about it.

“We blame outsiders or those who have decided to work with the APC, but what about ourselves, our governors? What did the governors do categorically to resolve this problem? When I was removed, the right thing to do was to convey a net meeting and find a replacement from North Central. When the time for the NEC meetings, Our governors will say It is salah muslim people are traveling, let’s shift it. When they come back they say it is easter. When they come back again they say it is christmas. When they come back again, they say it is a public holiday. Is this not shameful behavior?

“For 2 years the leaders of this party could not find a solution to the problem. For 2 good years because they have decided to sabotage the same platform that gave them whatever they have today. 2 Good years.

“Damagun has stayed with Anyanwu to carry out a very simple task, which is to decimate the party. I listened and I saw Damagu say our faith is in God’s hands.

“That is rubbish and an arrant statement Nonsense, Damagun why are you bringing God into this? How can our faith be in God’s hands? Where was God when you allowed a nec meeting for North Central to appoint an acting replacement? Where was God when you kept on shifting it?

“Where was God when you filed a matter in court against our own PDP in support of those lawmakers who defected from PDP to APC in Rivers state which led us to the crisis of emergency today in rivers? Where was God when you decided to give party structures to members of the APC? Where was God when you decided to keep on supporting the likes of Dan Obi and all those other treacherous elements that were hellbent on destroying the party? You now talk about our faith being in God’s hands.

“But you gave Wike permission to join APC government while remaining in PDP. You’re the one that is encouraging them both in dept and everywhere to the camp and you open your mouth and say our faith is in gods hands and you’re still sitting in a position that you have no legal right to be sitting. You’re a very wicked man.”

Imo Lawmaker Says 40 PDP Lawmakers, Two Governors Set To Decamp is first published on The Whistler Newspaper