Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, alongside members of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the party for the 2023 general elections in Rivers State, have declared their loyalty and support for President Bola Tinubu and the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
News About Nigeria gathered that the declaration was made during a news briefing held in Port Harcourt on Thursday, led by Dr. Abiye Sekibo, the former Minister of Transportation and Director-General of PDP-PCC Rivers State.
Key figures present at the briefing included Secondus, former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Austin Opara, former Deputy Governor of the State; Tele Ikuru, Senator Lee Maeba, former Secretary to the Rivers State Government; and Dr. Gabriel Pidomson, among others.
It is noteworthy that the council had previously supported the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 elections.
Meanwhile, six members of the Enugu State House of Assembly, under the platform of the Labour Party (LP), have defected to the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to the lawmakers, their defection is due to the ongoing crisis rocking the party.
The defected lawmakers, who include Ejike Eze (Igbo-Eze North 1), Johnson Ugwu (Enugu North), Princess Ugwu (Enugu South Rural), Pius Ezeugwu (Nsukka West), Amuka Williams (Igbo-Etiti East), and Osita Eze (Oji River), announced their defection during the plenary on Thursday in Enugu.
In their defection letter, which was read by the Speaker of the House, Uche Ugwu, at the Assembly Legislative Complex, the lawmakers cited the “existence of irreconcilable division, an ongoing crisis within the Labour Party at the national level, and across all the state chapters,” as the reason for their defection.
