Governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike is set to welcome 8,000 new members from the All Progressives Congress (APC) into the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The party said in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, that this would only be the first batch, saying the structure of the rival party would collapse into his party.
In a statement by Jerry Needam for his boss, the state chairman of the PDP, Felix Obuah, the PDP said it was set for the reception of first batch of over 8,000 prominent decampees to the PDP on Thursday (today), at the Sharks Stadium, Port Harcourt.
He said the event would be used to officially declare open a Welcome Back Registration Exercise for all returning APC members and leaders, as well as fresh members into the PDP fold in the state.
Obuah said the past weeks had been overwhelmingly busy and heart-warming for the party in attending to the daily influx of decampees, saying the decampees were fed up with the ‘deceit and abandonment’ by their leaders. This comes on the heels of a raucous meeting between the APC youths and Rotimi Amaechi, former governor, over demands for compensation and empowerment.
Obuah said as a responsible and caring party, the PDP had thought it wise to properly honour and acknowledge the home-coming of the once deceived brothers and sisters, who he said had now realised that the PDP was the party with human face, and through which the state and our collective interests could be realised.
It is in the light of this that the PDP said it was inviting the good people of the state and the ‘doubting Thomases’ to come and witness this great event, to put to rest the insinuation and claim that APC members were not moving in
droves to the victorious party, the PDP.
“This is also to celebrate the applaud-able feat by members and leaders of the PDP under its current leadership, in providing the development the state and the people need,” the party chairman said.
He further disclosed that the PDP had put in place logistics and all necessary arrangement to take care of the continued defections of members of the APC to the PDP, and that the official launch of the exercise would be part of the highlights of Thursday event as put together by the party, among whom was the former chief political strategist to Amaechi and APC, Emeh Glory Emeh, and other chieftains of the party.
The PDP recalled that since after the defection of Emeh from the APC, more leaders and faithful of the party had joined suit following what they described as the success and development efforts of the indefatigable Governor Wike, popularly called ‘Mr. Projects.’
Among those to be officially received by the leader of the Party and Governor of Rivers State would include Emeh the tactician, the over 200 former councilors of the APC, former Commissioner for Culture under Rotimi Amaechi, (Sunny Nwokoro), APC leader in ONELGA, Merino Okiraija, former chairman of Emohua LGA, Bob Okala, APC leader in ASALGA, Orolosama Amachree, the over 1500 APC members in Asalga, who have pitched their tent with the PDP in the State and thousands of other APC members who have joined the PDP during the period.
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