Anambra APC says it has not lost any member in Stella Oduah, adding that she was never a member of the party
By Emma Ogbuehi
Contrary to the news making the rounds on the Senator representing Anambra North, Stella Oduah, leaving the All Progressives Congress (APC) and returning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the platform on which she was elected to the national assembly, the APC has explained that the senator was never one of its own.
The Party, in a statement by the State Publicity Secretary, Okelo Madukaife, described the reports indicating that she had left APC as misleading. Oduah and some politicians in the state, had sold the impression of decamping to the APC in the run-up to the November governorship election in the state.
But the APC insists that the senator and other politicians who claimed to have left their respective political parties for APC last year in the build-up to Anambra State Governorship Elections, did not beyond photo ops in high places, outside the state.
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The party alleged that the senator and others who took that toute had an understanding to pursue an illegitimate business standing on the platform of APC, but the business failed in the face of a stout resistance from the close-knit membership in a party that fairly believes in the due process. The APC warned that none of the people in this group deserves to be reelected into any position of trust.
The statement reads:
We have read misleading reports that Sen. Stella Oduah has left our great party left All Progressives Congress (APC) for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for purpose of reelection.
On the contrary, Sen. Oduah alongside many PDP and APGA legislators at national and state level never left their respective political parties for APC last year in the build-up to Anambra State Governorship Elections, beyond photo ops in high places, outside the state.
They shared an understanding to pursue an illegitimate business standing on the platform of APC, but the business failed in the face of a stout resistance from the close-knit membership in a party that fairly believes in the due process.
Among the co-travelers of Oduah in this political business that failed are
Hon. Chris Azubogu, Hon. Vincent Ofumelu (who was bounced from a PDP meeting recently, Hon. Lynda Ikpeazu (Who successfully attended the same PDP meeting where Hon. Ofumelu was bounced), and Hon Okwudili Ezenwankwo (APGA), all of the Federal House of Representatives
Also in the illegitimate business were Hon Charles Obimma and Hon. Cater Umeh (APGA) as well as Hon. Onyebuchi Ofo (PDP) of Anambra State House of Assembly.
The common denominator among all these persons is that none of them ever addressed the legislative house where they serve to switch their political party being incumbents.
We have taken time to discreetly monitor their activities in dealing with plural platforms in the last three months and can confirm that none of them deserves to be reelected into any position of trust.
The least an electorate can go home with is the assurance of what political platform their would-be representative is.
That the respective constituents of these fellows could not be sure of that in the last six months is a symptom that points to a more serious ailment of greed, untrustworthiness and unreliability.
It is even more provocative if a particular political party that predominantly sold its nomination forms to some of these yesterday’s men and women and is prequalifying them for public office is the same that has been carrying out hypocritical judicial campaigns in Ebonyi, Cross Rivers, Ondo and other states of Nigeria for legislators that quit their platform to lose their seats.
What duplicity!
We urge Ndi Anambra particularly not to trust such political parties without principle or ideals and to vote out any of these unreliable characters, should they become flag bearers.
Anambra APC remains the best platform to genuinely work for the public from a service perspective, and not political business prospecting.
Those who understand and have made success out of this are those who believe in APC.
Those who sauntered in for the lure of fast lucre in political business prospecting and in the process joined in laying mines in our dynamic chapter, but were stopped by God and the APC spirit, are returning to their tents.
To us this calls for colourful celebrations.
APC has not lost any membership in them.
