Goodluck Jonathan and Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu.
Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, the former minister of health, has reportedly dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Vanguard reports that Chukwu registered as a member of the APC at his Ugwuegu Ward in Afikpo North local government area of Ebonyi state on Friday, February 12, in the presence of scores of his supporters and party’s officials.
He might have left the PDP in protest against the shabby treatment he allegedly received from the party as a governorship aspirant in 2014.
Although Chukwu has not yet confirmed the exit from the party, his former special assistant on media and communication, Dan Nwomeh, said that he was aware of the development.
Chukwu’s defection to the APC, which is an opposition party in Ebonyi state, may generate transformation of the political landscape in the state as several of his supporters and loyalists are expected to follow his example and join the APC.
Chukwu was a member of the Ken Nnamani-led pressure group that unsuccessfully tried to engineer a revamp of the PDP following the defeat of the party at the last presidential election.
However, on February 6, Nnamani himself resigned from the PDP claiming that the party had derailed from the vision it once had and that he does not foresee any change in the party’s operation in the future.
The former Senate president noted that he was leaving the PDP without any bitterness. Earlier this week, the PDP in Delta state suffered a huge blow as over 300 of its members decamped to the APC.
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