Defectors from PDP are contractors, they have no electoral value, says Ekweremadu
The build up to 2019 is daily assuming a different dimension. The Deputy Senate President, Ike Eweremadu said those who recently defected from the PDP to the ruling party have no electoral value saying they will soon know their worth.
Ekweremadu made this known at the Expanded Caucus and the 73 National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the PDP held on Thursday in Abuja.
“We should allow them get the contract they are looking for, to get employment they are looking for.
“At the appropriate time we will know who is who in the South East. There is nothing to worry about, we are completely in control, Ekweremadu said.
Also speaking at the meeting, Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio said that some lawmakers would be joining the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP at the end of its leadership crisis.
He said although some of them were defecting from PDP to other parties, the party still had very significant number of lawmakers as it was wining more seats through conducted elections.
“There is no election that will be conducted in the former PDP 28 states that the party will not win. That is a matter of fact.
“As I speak so many senators from the opposing party are eager to join PDP.
“All they want is return of peace to the party, once that is done I can assure that 20 senators are on their way to joining the PDP.
“Message to those who are thinking of defection is to retrace their steps because PDP is bouncing back to victory in 2019,’’ Akpabio said.
Akpabio regretted that the PDP lost elections in Edo and Ondo states, saying the party must put its house in order ahead of Anambra and Ekiti elections in order not to lose.
He also urged other governors to emulate Ayo Fayose, the governor of Ekiti and the Chairman PDP Governors' Forum, in support and speaking for the party.
He advised them to carry the party’s stakeholders along saying they cannot do it alone in 2019.
Chairman of the PDP Governors' Forum, Fayose, said he wondered why people still defected to the ruling party when Nigerians were tired of the party. He added that Nigerians were already waiting for another change.
Fayose, who promised to keep speaking for the party, also urged other leaders to keep supporting PDP.
The National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Dayo Adeyeye, while briefing journalists after the meeting, said the leaders discussed important issues concerning the party including the expansion of the membership of the national caretaker committee to 13 from six.
Adeyeye said it was also agreed that the additional number would be selected from each of the six geo-political zones of the country.
Adeyeye denied that the party had abandoned the construction of its national secretariat attributing the suspension of work at the site to the current crisis facing the party.
“You cannot be talking of building project when your house is in crisis. We will revisit it when we resolve our crisis,’’ Adeyeye said.
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