Abia APC Says 3,000 ‘Ghost’ Members Defected To PDP

Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state that over 3, 000 APC and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) members have defected to the party, saying the alleged defectors must be ghosts.

In a statement signed by the state Publicity Secretary of APC, Benedict Godson, the party said the report of stewardship given by the PDP Chairman, Hon. Asiforo Okere was simply “tales by moonlight”.

The statement read in part, “politics is not a market square. It’s an activity that involves leaders and followers. Whenever APC announces a defection into our party, we tell people about the leaders whose followers in any local government or ward have decided to move with into APC.

“This does not in anyway limit the powers of other persons who are not leaders in the party, because they have right to take decisions. But take it or you leave it, in every political movement, there must be leaders and there must be followers. That’s how it works.

“We challenge Hon. Asiforo Okere to give us names of prominent APC leaders that took their followers into PDP making up the fictitious, inexistent and ‘ghost-mode’ 3,000 persons he narrated about at Okpara Auditorium as comic relief to the tragedy already befalling the PDP.”

Godson said PDP formulated the defection story because it was aware that more of their top notchers would soon join APC.

“They know that National Assembly members and many State Assembly members from their party are gearing up towards joining the APC and they think with that bogus claim, people will believe they are still waxing strong in the state. ”.

He maintained that the party was engaged in fabrications of laughable stories full of self-deceit.