PDP reacts to Ekweremadu’s ‘planned defection’ to APC

The National Organizing Secretary, NOS, of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, Col. Austin Akobundu (retd) has said that the rumoured
defection of the Deputy Senate President, DSP, Senator Ike Ekweremadu
to the All Progressives Congress, APC, was the handiwork of mischief
makers.

The NOS, in a statement he signed on Wednesday, said, "Ekweremadu is
PDP body and soul and is not leaving the party to anywhere".

He stated that Senator Ekweremadu has made enormous contributions to
the party especially during its trying period and "cannot leave at
this time when the party has been rebranded and is soaring high to
regain power in the country in 2019".

Akobundu continued: "Senator Ekweremadu who is holding the highest
political office in the region is thinking of how to galvanize the
geo-political area to massively vote out APC and block any other party
in the region.

"Intelligence available to the PDP shows that even those who
erroneously joined the APC from the area are now full of regrets with
some of them even contemplating a return."

The NOS charged members of the public particularly members of the
party in the South-East not to be distracted but continue in their
mobilization to vote in the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to
victory in 2019 and help rescue the country's democracy.