Legislator from Ebonyi State defects from PDP to APC.

Hon. Victor Chidi Nwoke, a member of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly representing Abakaliki North Constituency and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has officially defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Nwoke made the decision during the inauguration of the BERWO local Government Committee, which is the pet project of the state Governor’s wife.

The main reason for his defection is the ongoing and unresolved crises within the PDP at both the state and national levels.

Nwoke praised Governor Francis Nwifuru for his achievements and leadership, particularly in relation to the People’s Charter of Needs.

“The crisis between the former Vice President of Nigeria and the party’s Presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the immediate past Governor of Rivers State and current minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike is causing a lot of disquiet within the party.

“The party has seriously been engulfed in leadership crisis to the extent that it has polarised the party into fierce contending groups, in addition to failed attempts to upstage the National Chairman who is believed to be a stooge of the minister of FCT.

“The leadership struggle between wike and Atiku has witnessed an unprecedented loss of members to other political parties even as it grapples with its own micro crisis

“Moreso, due to the leadership prowess of the Governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, which is centered on the People’s Charter of Needs, the Governor of Ebonyi State is a paradigm of perfection”.