A former Governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has stated that there was nothing good of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the national level.
The former Governor also accused the PDP of never protecting its own, but only use and dump them.
Uduaghan spoke in an interview with Channels Television at the weekend.
The former Delta State Governor only last week dumped the PDP for the APC.
The Itsekiri-born politician also vowed to sack the incumbent Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa and other PDP office holders from the state come 2019 general elections.
He said, “Let me tell you something. The PDP has never protected its own. PDP can use you and whatever happens to you after, nobody cares.
“People will move from PDP to APC because the conditions in APC now favour the development of the Niger Delta. And so, we’re going to mobilise people from PDP in the south south to APC.
“If you looked at that statement, I said that agreements have been reached between the APC, that is, the Buhari government and the people of the Niger Delta, and we need to have people inside the APC to be able to push some of these agreements that have been reached. Not to start a fresh agreement.
“Oh yes. We all know. The PDP at the national is busy dealing with the issues of the National Assembly. Is there something really good of the PDP at the national?”
He continued, “Now, the APC in Delta has been very weak. We don’t have a House of Assembly member, only one National Assembly member; it has not won any election even at the council level, let alone state or national level.
“It has been built around an individual. In those days, you could come to the state with money and people begin to flock around him. Delta State has gone beyond that.
“We have to come together collectively and build the party. What I’m doing now, I’ve been going around talking to the leaders that we need to build our party from the ward level not from the top.
“A party should be built from the grassroots, not from the top. That’s the first responsibility that I have.”
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