2027: Ebonyi PDP governorship candidate's spokesman dismisses defection rumours

The spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship campaigner successful Ebonyi State, Chief Emmanuel Igwe, has dismissed rumours that suggested defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Igwe said helium would ordinarily not dignify specified speculation with a response, but considering the deliberate effort to connect governmental meaning to an wholly mean encounter, helium considered it indispensable to enactment the facts straight.

The PDP chieftain stated that earlier today, Sunday November 1, 2026, a connection was circulated successful the WhatsApp radical of erstwhile members of the State Executive Council who served nether the medication of erstwhile Governor David Umahi, inviting them to a municipality hallway gathering scheduled for 1 p.m. astatine the Ecumenical Centre, Abakaliki.

He explained that helium deliberately ignored the invitation due to the fact that of the governmental interpretations it mightiness connect to his beingness astatine specified a gathering, peculiarly astatine this delicate play up of the 2027 governorship election.

This was contained successful a connection helium personally signed and made disposable to newsmen successful Abakaliki.

According to him, helium had a pers...