Defection hits Enugu LP as federal lawmaker, 1000 others join APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State has received the member representing Udi/Ezeagu federal constituency, in the House of Representatives, Hon. Sunday Umeha, to the party.
Umeha, who was elected into the National Assembly on the platform of Labour Party (LP), announced his defection to the ruling APC during a mini-rally at Ibagwa-Aka, in Igboeze South local government area, weekend.
At the event, a business mogul and financier of Labour Party in Igboeze South local government area, Chief Joshua Ogbonna popularly called “Father Father” led more than 1000 members of the party, including the local government structures of the party, into the APC.
Speaking on why he attended the APC rally, which was outside his own constituency of Udi/Ezeagu, Umeha said it was in solidarity with his friend, Chief Ogbonna, disclosing that another rally that would officially usher him into APC would still come up in matter of days in his local government area, Ezeagu.
The lawmaker however announced that he had already resigned from the Labour Party and registered with APC at his Ward, citing the intractable division within the ranks of his former party (LP) at the national and state levels as one of the reasons for defecting to the APC.
Speaking while receiving the defectors, the Enugu State Chairman of APC, Barr Ugochukwu Agballah, said the party was getting primed to take over Enugu’s seat of power, the Lion Building, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2027.
Agballah stated that PDP’s dominance of governance of the state for 26 years has only brought tears, anguish and sorrow to the people with high taxations, land grabbing, and demolitions of people’s means of livelihood for the purpose of building motor parks, which ordinarily should be the responsibility of local governments.
He thanked a chieftain of the party from Nsukka local government area, Barr Peter Okonkwo for donating Enugu North Senatorial Zonal Campaign Office to the party and facilitating the collapse of LP structure in Igboeze South LGA.
