Former PDP chairman defects to APC in Abia

Monday, January 6, 2025 - Senator Emma Nwaka, the former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia state, has defected to the All Progressive Congress, APC.

Nwaka’s defection is coming six months after he had “quietly resigned” his membership in PDP on June 12, 2024, which he later made public on August 30, 2024, citing “personal reasons.”

Nwaka, who was a governorship aspirant of PDP in the 2023 general election, had earlier sparked speculation about his membership in the APC when a photograph surfaced showing him receiving an APC membership card in his Oguduasa Ward 5.

He was presented with an APC membership card by the party’s chairman for Oguduasa Ward 5, Sampson Achi Ndukwe.

The APC chairman for Isuikwuato Local Government, Chief Udochi Okorie and other party officials witnessed the event.

A political aide of the senator confirmed the development to journalists, promising that Nwaka would soon speak to the public about his decision.

The exit door of Abia PDP became very busy after the party lost its over 20-year control of the state following the triumph of the Labour Party in the 2023 governorship poll.

Most of the party chieftains that have so far left Abia PDP, including the immediate past Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Chinedum Orji, have found their way into APC, the party that presently calls the shots in Nigeria.

Nwaka, who was in charge of Abia PDP between 2010 and 2015, piloted the affairs of the party when it completely dominated the political space in God’s own state.