After resigning from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and keeping out of party affiliation for six months, a former Abia PDP Chairman, Senator Emma Nwaka has eventually crossed over to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
His confirmed defection has added to the number of top chieftains of PDP in Abia State that have continued to swell the ranks of APC, which has been making gains from the disaffection within Abia PDP.
Nwaka had on June 12, 2024 “quietly resigned” his membership of PDP only to make it public later on August 30, 2024, citing “personal reasons”.
Though the former Abia North Senator is yet to make his defection public, it appeared that he chose to join APC quietly just like his resignation from PDP. However, it has now emerged that Nwaka has already been formally admitted into the APC family and issued a membership card of the party.
Nwaka, who was a governorship aspirant of PDP in the 2023 general election, sparked speculation about his membership of APC when a photograph surfaced showing him receiving APC membership card in his Oguduasa Ward 5, Isuikwuato Local Government.
In the photograph above, Nwaka is seen being presented with APC party card by the APC Chairman for Oguduasa Ward 5, Chief Sampson Achi Ndukwe.
The APC Chairman for Isuikwuato Local Government, Chief Udochi Okorie and other party officials were also captured in the photograph.
Though efforts by our correspondent to reach Senator Nwaka to confirm his defection to APC did not succeed, it was authoritatively ascertained that he has become a member of APC.
A political aide of the Senator told journalists that “the photograph was not AI generated”, adding that Nwaka would eventually “bare his mind to the public on this momentous event in the fullness of time”.
The exit door of Abia PDP became very busy after the party lost its over 20 years control of the state following the triumph of the Labour Party in the 2023 governorship poll.
Most of the party chieftains that have so gar left Ahia PDP, including the immediate past Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Chinedum Orji, have found their way to APC, the party that presently calls the shots in Nigeria.
Nwaka, who was in charge or Abia PDP between 2010 and 2015 piloted the affairs of the party when it completely dominated the political space in God’s own state
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