Immediate past Senator representing Abia Central senatorial zone at the
Senate, Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, has described the All Progressive Congress,
(APC) as a government in waiting in the state, boasting that she took the
right decision by resigning from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Nwaogu who represented the zone from 2007 to 2015 and later defected to the
APC , in a chat with newsmen in Aba, insisted that with the influx of
eminent politicians into the party in the state, APC could be described as
a ‘government in waiting’ in the state.
The former Senator insisted that the APC had learnt lessons from the
mistakes of the PDP which caused it to lose power at the centre, stressing
that it is high time Abia state is rescued from what she described as
‘mediocre governance and godfatherism.’
She said, “I have been vindicated by leaving the PDP; the sordid state of
affairs in PDP has said it all. The party is now a shadow of itself. PDP
failed to be democratic and chose impunity, we cried out but nobody
listened. This is a party that boasted that it will be in power for 60
years. It is interesting that none of the PDP members can make such boast
again. A lot of high ranking PDP members are registering with the APC in
the ongoing registration exercise.
“In the APC, we don’t want to follow the bad steps that caused the fall of
the PDP. We want to build a formidable party that has all it takes to win
the state. APC will take over Abia in 2019. The influx of leading
politicians in Abia to the APC tells you that APC is a government in
waiting in the state. Now is the time to move away from mediocre
governance and godfatherism. APC is determined to set things right in Abia.
“You can ask yourself if it is well with the PDP, why has the party members
continued to dump the PDP, a party that produced a governor. The PDP
government has failed in Abia, the people have become disillusioned. Go the
streets; you will discover that the people of the state are in a hurry to
sack the PDP. Even in Abia here, some workers said Buhari people don’t want
to pay salaries and I asked them, is Buhari in charge of paying salaries to
workers in Abia state?”