The depletion of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will continue on Tuesday, with the governor of Enugu state, Peter Mbah expected to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
His planned defection was perfected following the dissolution of the Enugu State Working Committee of the party.
Mbah is expected to join the ruling party alongside elected national and state legislators, members of the state executive, and party leaders from ward and local government levels across the state.
The chairman of Enugu state caretaker committee for the party, Dr. Ben Nwoye disclosed this on Friday in Abuja after the inauguration of his committee by the National Chairman of the party, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda.
His words: “For the past 10 years, Enugu State has remained in opposition. But all that will change on Tuesday, the 14th of October, 2024, when the governor will be declaring for APC.
“And the governor is not coming alone. The governor is coming in with 260 ward councillors. They will be declaring with the governor. He will be coming in with the 24 members of House of Assembly. He will be coming in with members of the National Assembly. He will also be coming with the entire Exco.”
Earlier, Yilwatda told members of the caretaker committee that he understood the fact that they would have to rebuild the party in the state.
His stated: “We know the challenges that we’re in, the need to rebuild the party, to keep the party, to refocus the party, to ensure that the party expands. Expansion in terms of membership.
“We want to see the number of people that we have in APC increase under your leadership. Not forgetting the members that we have in APC. You can’t throw away what you have because you want to go and get what you don’t have.
“We must maintain our members, who have laboured, who have suffered, who have built the party, who have sustained. We are the building block of the party.
“We must be sustained, we must be kept, we must be nurtured, we must be honoured. That’s what keeps this party together.
“Secondly, APC is a home to all. The person that came yesterday, the person that came today, the person that will come tomorrow, the person that will come next tomorrow, will have equal rights and equal access, based on our Constitution.