These are indeed bad times for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a former minister of Information, and governor of the old Anambra state, Chief Jim Nwobodo, on Friday, January 8, defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC).
According to a report on The Punch, Nwobodo, a former presidential aspirant and senator on the platform of the PDP, announced his defection at a meeting reportedly convened by Dr. Geoffrey Onyeama, the foreign affairs minister in Enugu state.
In his speech, Nwobodo condemned his former party.
He said: “You must always lose, what matters is the ability to rise again.
“I must condemn our former party, PDP – I know we had problems.
“I told our former chairman, how come did we allow five governors to leave the party?
“I am not looking for a job, I am talking because I want peace.
“I want our people to be part of the Federal Government at the centre.”
A former PDP senator from Enugu state, Chief Fidelis Okoro, also defected to the APC at the meeting.
The former governor of Anambra state, Jim Nwobodo dumps PDP for APC
Okoro was in the Senate between 1999 and 2007.
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January 08, 2016 at 02:57PM
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