The National Organizing Secretary (NOS) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Col. Austin Akobundu (rtd) on Wednesday debunked the rumoured defection of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Akobundu said the rumour was the handiwork of mischief makers worried at the rising profile of the party, insisting that Ekweremadu was PDP body and soul and not leaving the party to anywhere.
He said that Senator Ekweremadu had made enormous contributions to the party especially during the trying period and cannot leave at this time when the party had been rebranded and soaring high to regain power in 2019.
According to Col Akobundu who is the highest party official from the South East, “Senator Ekweremadu who is holding the highest political office in the region is thinking of how to galvanize the geo-political area to massively vote out APC and block any other party in the region.”
He said intelligence available to the PDP showed that even those who erroneously joined the APC from the area were now full of regrets with some of them even contemplating a return.
The NOS said the Deputy Senate President who was outside the country when “the wicked rumour started has denied and urged his numerous supporters to discountenance it.”
Col Akobundu then charged members of the public particularly members of the party in the Southeast not to be distracted but continue in their mobilization to vote in their presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar to victory in 2019 and help rescue the country’s democracy.
