Senator Abe Allegedly Dumps APC For PDP

The federal lawmaker representing Rivers South-East in the Senate, Senator Magnus Abe, is alleged to have dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

This was according to a stalwart of the APC in Rivers, Dr Chidi Julius Lloyd, who made the claim in chat with newsmen Port Harcourt.

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Dr Lloyd, who is also the Director-General of Tonye Cole Campaign Organization, said: “I don’t think so. You know when you talk about Senator Magnus Abe, I get very emotional. I wish that Magnus was not beaten by this bug of ambition.

“I cannot sit here to deny the fact that Senator Magnus Abe was a very staunch member of the APC until he left the party for what he will consider as greener pasture. As far as I am concerned, his conduct does not depict that he is in APC.

“Recall that we had raised an alarm when he started hobnobbing with PDP elements. So he has just being recruited; we know how much he was paid to recruit him to destroy the party. We know when he organised his party, how two private jets were brought in. These are details for another day.”

But, Abe, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by his spokesman, Parry Saro Benson, described the statement as unfounded and a calculated attempt by the detractors to distract his supporters who have remained firm and resolute to the cause of the struggle to insist on justice, equity, and fair play in APC in the state.

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The statement reads in part: “The attention of Senator Magnus Abe Media Office has been drawn to an unfounded report circulating on social media claiming that the distinguished Senator Magnus Abe has dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

“The statement as unfounded and a calculated attempt by the detractors to distract Senator Abe’s supporters who have remained firm and resolute to the cause of the struggle to insist on justice, equity, and fair play in Rivers APC.

“I am the frontline choice of Rivers APC for 2019 elections, that is why so much efforts, resources and energy have been expended on a futile mission to obliterate the reality.

“This sponsored campaign of hate and calumny is part of that effort and like every pack of lies, it will collapse in the fullness of time.

“I have been in politics long enough to know that a smear campaign is one of the tools you deploy when your case is weak, so from the intensity of the smear campaign discerning political watchers, I know that no real case can be made against me.

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“Just as I have said severally, let me re-emphasized that, I bought form for governor on the platform of APC in Rivers State and am running for the Office of Governor.”

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