PDP receives 8,000 APC decampees in Port Harcourt

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Rivers State Chapter, Chief Felix Obuah, has declared the party’s preparedness to receive the first batch of over 8,000 prominent decampees from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to its fold today, Thursday, in Port Harcourt, the capital city of the state, by the governor of the state, Barrister Nyesom Wike.

The event scheduled to take place at the popular Sharks Stadium, Port Harcourt, is also expected to 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, the Party Chairman, Chief Obuah disclosed.

The Chairman explained that the past weeks have been overwhelmingly busy and heart-warming for the party in attending to what he described as the daily influx of decampees from the APC to the PDP.

He elucidated that “as a responsible and caring party, the PDP has thought it wise to properly honour and acknowledge the home-coming of the once deceived brothers and sisters, who have now realized that the PDP is the party with human face, and through which the State and our collective interests can be realized.

“It is in the light of this that the PDP invites 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 are not moving in droves to the victorious party, the PDP. This is also to celebrate the applaudable feat by members and leaders of the PDP under its current leadership, in providing the development of the State and the people need,” he said.

Chief Obuah further disclosed that the PDP has put in place logistics and all necessary arrangement to take care of the defections of members of the APC to the PDP, and that the official launch of the exercise would be part of the highlights of today’s event as put together by the party, among whom includeded the former Chief Political Strategist to former Governor Rotimi Amaechi and the Rivers State All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Emeh Glory Emeh, and other chieftains of the party.

Among those to be officially received by the leader of the Party and Governor of Rivers State are the Chief Emeh Glory Emeh, 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, Hon. 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.

The party hoped to receive more decampees from the APC in the coming days, Obuah expressed optimism.