AGENCY REPORT
Anambra senator, Ifeanyi Ubah, says he decided to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) because he wants the South-east to align with the central government of President Bola Tinubu.
Ubah said this when he visited the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, in the company of the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.
The senator had earlier in the day announced his resignation from the Young Progressive Party (YPP) on whose platform he won election in 2019 and 2023 to represent the Anambra South Senatorial District.
Ubah appreciated the APC leadership for accepting him into its fold.
He commended Tinubu for appointing Dave Umahi as the minister of works, despite the party recording low votes in the South-east at the 2023 presidential election.
“Our president is rewarding even those who didn’t vote for him, for that it will be very difficult for any man with a conscience not to look at the direction of the centre party.
“I don’t see anyone who will come against my coming into the APC,” he said.
Ubah added that he consulted widely with his political family and critical stakeholders in the South-east before defecting to the APC.
“It is not all about talking, it is about doing, I believe in action, Mr President, just take it from me, I am going to deliver.
“I have made my complaints to President Tinubu in front of the Senate President and he has graciously given me his words that he will support me.
“I want to be sincere, it has always been difficult for the Igbo people to key into the national party because of our sentiments and emotions.
“Our president is a politician who understands how it pains and how to console everybody. He has that capacity,” he said.
Ganduje, while receiving Mr Ubah, said he was the biggest politician that had joined the party since he assumed office as the APC chairman.
“This is the biggest fish I have gotten,” Ganduje said.
He expressed optimism that with Ubah’s defection, the party would take over the South-east in the coming elections.
“We will start a revolution, already we have two states in the South-east and with this timber and calibre, juggernaut, I think we have found the answer.
“We thank you for coming. I describe him as a swing politician because wherever he is that party wins.
“And we are expecting this swing will swing throughout South-east, especially to the other three states that don’t belong to APC,” Ganduje said.
(NAN)
