Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Chief Chibudum Nwuche, has decided today, April 9, to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to the Vanguard, Nwuche confirmed the development to their journalist in a telephone interview, saying that he had to leave the party because the place is corrupt and had shortchanged him several times.
He reportedly said his political friends – former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Naaba, and former president Olusegun Obasanjo – had all moved over to the APC from the PDP.
It would be recalled that Nwuche alleged electoral fraud in the senatorial primaries of the PDP when he lost the election for the Rivers West Senatorial district. According him, there was no election.
After an official exit from the PDP, Nwuche is expected to battle with former governor Peter Odili over Orashi region in Rivers state where they both hail from. Odili is firmly in the PDP and supporting Chief Nyesom Wike of the PDP for the governorship seat.
Nwuche has called on his supporters to vote for Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the APC.
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