House of Representatives member, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere has defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the Action People’s Party (APP).
Declaring for APP in his country home, Akokwa in Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State on Wednesday, Ugochinyere said all efforts to rescue PDP had failed, hence his decision to quit the party.
The lawmaker recalled the troubles he passed through in the PDP and the many court cases instituted against him by party members.
“From the day we started with PDP to this afternoon, we are still in court with our party in a bid to retain the seat that for over fifteen years they never won until we brought victory to them. Now that we survived all these ordeals in the last three, four years, should we try it again? No. Should we test God to see whether we survive? Not to talk of the fact that some of them testified against us in tribunal, our own party men.
“I found it very insulting as the only federal lawmaker that the party has in the state. But they preferred that the party died while they washed dishes in Port Harcourt.
“We want to build. We want to earn every vote. And that’s why we took a political party that we want to build from scratch, filled with energy of young people, we went to a political party that didn’t have any governor so we can build because we are sure of what we want to do. It’s on that gound that I have decided to depart from the PDP”, he submitted.
