BOT Member Dumps PDP For APC

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Benjamin Apugo, yesterday landed a mother slap on the party’s leadership as he resigned his membership for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Chief Apugo who was a founding member of the party revealed that he has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Explaining to journalists his reason for dumping the PDP and renouncing his membership of the BOT at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport on Monday, Chief Apugo disclosed that he took the decision as a result of lack of internal democracy in the party which he added, had made the party lose its initial concept.

“We were not in APC before, but we have joined now. So you cannot say it is a regional party. It is a national party that will provide Nigerians with a healthy alternative.

“Those who were failed by the PDP will now find succor in the APC. It is the change the people needed and it will unseat the PDP in 2015”, he said.

According to him, “I was a founding member of the PDP. We labored tirelessly to build the party but today, the concept of the founding fathers is longer there. In my home state, Abia, the PDP has failed woefully in all sectors and the APC will take over the state because every Abia indigene who wants those activities that are currently lacking will identify with us and support the APC”.

He added that mass mobilisation for APC in Abia State will commence soon.

L-R: President, World Federation of Engineering Organisation, Mr Marwan Abdelhamid, President, Nigerian Society of Engineers, Mr Mustafa Shehu and Minister of Water Resources, Mrs Sarah Ochekpe, at the 2013 International Engineering Conference, Exhibition and Annual General Meeting in Abuja, yesterday. Photo: NAN