APC Chieftain Obiechina Explains Why Governor Mbah Defected To The Ruling Party

The decision of Governor Peter Mbah to go from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State, according to Dr. Alex Chukwuemeka Obiechina, a leader of the APC, indicates that he is more concerned with the future than the present.

Even without Governor Mbah joining the national ruling party, he said, his second term was already guaranteed.

Governor Peter Mba, who was elected in 2023 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is expected to be formally welcomed into the APC on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters in Abuja on Monday, Obiechina said that Governor Mbah’s decision to join the APC is an example of political bravery and wisdom.

Additionally, he added, “I am personally amazed by the way this young man has brought zeal, excellence, courage, and foresightedness into governance and politics of Enugu State.” The governor avoided blind opposition politics.

He claimed that because of the PDP’s blatant impunity, lack of discipline, and opposition to reform, the state has been stagnant for the past 26 years.

“This governor has a second term guaranteed.”

“He cares more about tomorrow than today, as evidenced by his decision to join us in the APC,” he stated.

After reflecting on the PDP’s purported impunity, which cost him the opportunity to run for governor of Enugu State in 2011, Obiechina said it was fortunate that the governor of Enugu State decided to abandon the decadent opposition party in favor of a better future in the APC.

Without a doubt, the PDP is suffering from its numerous political transgressions, such as unprecedented political indiscipline, corruption, poor party politics, and impunity. I’m thrilled and pleased that my home state’s governor decided to join the APC without wasting any more time in the nasty assembly.

In addition to forbidding the South East from flying the party’s presidential banner in 1999, 2003, and 2023, the PDP had no moral remorse about granting Mbah the right to participate in the national Working Committee of the party as the sole PDP Governor from the region.

“Now that Mbah has decided to introduce the big broom of national progressive politics, all the remaining flags of the PDP’s years of humiliation in the South East have been swept out of existence.”

Wavering the party’s flag, a few members of Governor Mbah’s cabinet made an APC declaration at the Enugu State Government House on Monday.

Some of them said in a widely shared video that “we are in the APC now, Jagaban all the way, APC from bottom to top.”

Among the cabinet members are Prince of Mburumbu and Commissioner for Innovation, Science, and Technology Dr. Lawrence Ezeh; the Chairman of the Science, Technical, Vocational Schools Management Board, Dr. Amaka S. Ngene; and the Commissioner for Labor, Dr. Felix Nnamani.