Former governor of Anambra State, Chinwoke Mbadinuju, on Monday announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, giving his “unflinching support” to the candidacy of Muhammadu Buhari. He also called on all Nigerians to vote for the APC in the 2015 general election.
The erstwhile PDP chieftain, who briefed the pnewsmen on why he was dumping the PDP for the APC in Abuja, said it was borne out of the need to get Nigeria out of its present “quagmire”. He stressed that things cannot continue like this, lest the society would collapse.
According to the ex-governor, “It is necessary to join the APC now because it is the right thing to do. While the APC has proved itself a promising party of present and future, we can all see glaringly that everything good about the PDP has since vanished.
“The PDP became an unjust and unfair political party with no truth in its mouth, no compassion in its heart, no sincerity in its purpose and its action always intrinsically self-serving and deceitful.
“In spite of the fact that as governor of Anambra state, I did my utmost best to improve the lot of our people in a spate of four years, against a tremendous but utterly needless opposition by members of the party in the state in collaboration with the presidency in Abuja, I was the only serving governor that the PDP unjustly denied its ticket for a second term.
“The party behaved as if it never wronged me nor wronged the vast population of Anambrarians whose lives I have touched while superintending the state as governor. Together with our supporters, we were ignored and the government at the centre operated and still operates as if PDP members never existed in Anambra state.
“Whosoever the government patronized turned out to be dishonest or turned into a mediocre, thus making dishonesty and mediocrity take the centre-stage of government and politics in the country. We painfully endured it for long, hoping that with the leadership things would also change. But from Obasanjo to Yar’ adua and to Jonathan, nothing changed; if anything the situation kept getting worse and worse,” he said.
Mbadinuju further described Boko Haram insurgency as part of God’s punishment upon Nigeria and pointed out that, “The insurgency will not abate until we embrace justice in the land. Sodom and Gomorrah may soon be child’s play if care is not taken, and it is for this reason that we know now that injustice begat corruption no matter how we paint it.”
While insisting that things cannot continue the way they currently are in the country, the former governor stated that, “It is therefore the responsibility, nay duty, of all God-fearing citizens and men of good standing in our country to do something so as to get us out of the present national quagmire.”
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