Expel Wike, Damagum, Anyanwu Now or Lose Two More PDP Govs, 40 Lawmakers – Ikenga Ugochinyere Warns
By The9jaTREND
A member of the House of Representatives, representing Ideato Federal Constituency, Mr Ikenga Ugochinyere, yesterday, said two governors and 40 lawmakers are prepared to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the coming weeks.
Ugochinyere expressed dismay over the lingering crisis in the PDP, saying rather than act, the party leaders kept mute and allowed the situation to fester.
Addressing newsmen in Akokwa in Ideato North, Imo State, the lawmaker called on the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, to expel Samuel Anyanwu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, from the PDP.
He said: “I must also inform you that I have also confirmed that 40 lawmakers elected on the platform of the party are going to decamp from the party in the coming weeks. Look at the state in which we are today. Lawmakers are decamping in mass. Governors are decamping. Two extra governors are about to decamp. I can confirm this.”
Speaking further, he said: “Those days that we were so scared would come are now here with us. We cried, we fought, we begged the PDP leaders to stand up and rescue the party. We told them that there are imposters in the party in the persons of Umar Damagum and Samuel Anyanwu.
“However, PDP governors played with this. PDP stakeholders played with this. We said if the right thing was not done, this party would disintegrate before our own eyes. We said that if Alex Ekwueme, Solomon Lar, Adamu Ciroma and all the founding fathers of this party were alive today and were seeing the goings-on, they would cry over how the once biggest opposition platform in Africa had been turned into a political dog that barked without biting.
“We warned of the threats that these men (Anyanwu and Damagum portend) and the consequences. Today, look at the state of our party. Our governors are jumping ship. Our lawmakers are jumping ship. Our members are jumping ship in different parts of the country. Come to think about it, we may 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 Ayu was removed, the right thing to have been done was to convene a National Executive Meeting, NEC, meeting and find a replacement from the North-Central. However, when the time for NEC came, our governors would say, it was Salah and Muslim people were travelling, then shifted it. When they came back, they would say it is Easter and on it went until this moment. Is that not shameful behaviour? For two years, the leaders of this party could not find a solution to these problems because they decided to sabotage the same platform that gave them whatever they have today.
