PDP in trouble as ex-ruling party loses more Senators to APC
*Cross River Central’s Enoh dumps PDP for APC
“If you look at Cross River very well under Benedict Ayade, you would discover that Cross River, though a PDP state, has been on the same page with Muhammadu Buhari and his government. Don’t also forget that it was the first of the Nigeria’s 36 states that President Buhari would visit to flag off a vital road project following his inauguration as President on May 29, 2015. I would also like to call your attention to a rumour in the past putting Ayade up as APC in the toga of PDP. So, decampment of Enoh may not be due to running away from shadow of corrupt past but due to his love for President Muhammadu Buhari as a result of his performance,” he said.
It is no longer at ease for People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as the former ruling party continues to lose its Senate members with which it flex muscles to the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).
Another of the losses in recent times occurred when Senator John Enoh, representing Cross River Central, at Tuesday plenary of the Senate, announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Enoh is one of the PDP Senators that Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki, preferring over his party members, appointed as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance.
Speaking on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, Enoh said he had registered as a member of the APC in his ward.
At this point, the Red Chamber became rowdy as APC Senators got up to welcome Enoh to the party.
Commenting on the development, Senate President Bukola Saraki wished him well on his sojourn in the APC.
“I wish him fruitful service to his people on the platform he has chosen,” Saraki said.
Some of the developments emerging lately in the way PDP politicians decamp to APC, a respondent of The DEFENDER, speaking from Akure, Ondo State capital, said was “not all due to running away from punishment of corruption” as he said it was not all the decampees that could be tagged corrupt.
“If you look at Cross River very well under Benedict Ayade, you would discover that Cross River, though a PDP state, has been on the same page with the Muhammadu Buhari and his government. Don’t also forget that it was the first of the Nigeria’s 36 states that President Buhari would visit to flag off a vital road project following his inauguration as President on May 29, 2015. I would also like to call your attention to a rumour in the past putting Ayade up as APC in the toga of PDP. So, decampment of Enoh may not be due to running away from shadow of corrupt past but due to his love for President Muhammadu Buhari as a result of his performance,” he said.
