Orji Kalu
The
prospects of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State were beclouded,
yesterday, after a former member of the party’s Board of Trustees, Chief Sam
Nkire, formally declared for the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
In
a statement in Umuahia, Chief Nkire said he decided to join forces with the PDP
both at the state and federal levels in the next general elections because he
was convinced that Nigerians wanted the party back to serve them better.
Nkire
was also the deputy national chairman, South of the splinter group in the APC,
Reformed All Progressives Congress, R-APC and before then national chairman of
the Progressives Peoples Alliance, PPA, the political party inspired by a
former governor of the state, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu.
Nkire
also said that after all said and done, he had no regrets leaving the APC for the R-APC, and now the PDP, adding
that it was regrettable to note that the APC had left the country worse than it
met it.
The
former member of the APC’s Board of Trustees, therefore, used the opportunity
to ask all his loyalists, followers and associates who had been asking him for
political direction, especially in Abia State, to follow him to the PDP.
According
to the former national chairman of the PPA, the PDP is the only hope Nigeria
has to solve the numerous security, economic and political problems bedeviling
the country today.
Chief
Sam Nkire who was until recently the Caucus Leader of the APC in Abia State
confessed that he would surely miss his brothers, associates, and friends who
may choose to remain but added that “brothers will always be brothers no matter
what party they belonged.”
He said he was sure that the PDP had learned from
its past mistakes and appealed to every Nigerian of voting age who is yet to
get a voter’s card to endeavour to get one.
The
former APC chieftain particularly appealed to all former members of the PDP and
the PPA who followed him to the APC to join him in PDP, assuring them that “PDP
is now a new, reformed and restructured party ready to serve Nigerians better.”
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