2027 elections: Panic in PDP as another popular governor set to defect to APC

• The PDP has called connected Akwa Ibom Governor Umo Eno to absorption connected electoral reforms alternatively of defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC), citing his agelong past with the party
• Governor Umo Eno, aft being with the enactment for 25 years, precocious hinted astatine dumping the enactment up of the 2027 elections
• Timothy Osadolor, the PDP’s lawman nationalist younker leader, condemned Governor Eno’s planned determination and explained what helium should bash alternatively of defection

Legit.ng writer Esther Odili has implicit 2 years of acquisition covering governmental parties and movements.

The nationalist enactment of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno, to prioritise electoral reforms alternatively than defecting to different party, apt the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Governor Umo Eno hints astatine defecting to APC

Akwa Ibom Governor Umo Eno hints astatine resigning from the PDP up of the 2027 elections. Photo credit: Pastor Umo Eno
Source: Facebook

Timothy Osadolor, the lawman nationalist younker person of the PDP, expressed his concerns during an exclusive interrogation with Vanguard successful Abuja connected Wednesday, April 30.

Legit.ng reported that Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom hinted astatine a imaginable defection from the PDP to the APC, citing the party’s interior situation arsenic a reason.

Speaking during a constituency meeting, helium likened the PDP to a faulty craft that tin nary longer instrumentality him to his governmental destination.

PDP reacts to Umo Eno's planned defection to APC

PDP begs Governor Umo Eno to reconsider his determination connected defection to APC. Photo credit: PDP, Pastor Umo Eno
Source: Facebook

Reacting connected Wednesday, Timothy Osadolor described the governor’s imaginable defection arsenic “very, precise unfortunate.”

Osadolor criticized the move, stressing that Governor Eno, who has benefited from the PDP for implicit 25 years, has a motivation work to advocator for the integrity of Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian system.

He emphasized that the politician should alternatively absorption connected championing reforms specified arsenic the Intelligent Result Viewing Portal (iREV) and the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), some of which are cardinal to enhancing transparency successful the electoral process.

“When you presume that radical person integrity, class, and substance, it is profoundly disappointing to observe they are, successful fact, simply tiny men successful oversized apparel and large shoes. There’s a existent consciousness of disillusionment erstwhile those you erstwhile held successful precocious respect crook retired to beryllium acold little impressive. I wonderment what justification the politician of Akwa Ibom State intends to connection for his defection,” Osadolor remarked, voicing his disappointment successful Eno’s reported plans.

Osadolor noted that Eno, who has agelong been a subordinate of the PDP, appears to beryllium contemplating defection retired of fearfulness of being “rigged out” successful the 2027 elections.

“I telephone connected the politician to reconsider. He has the accidental to permission a bequest that volition beryllium remembered by aboriginal generations. As a almighty governor, helium should rally Nigerians successful demanding credible electoral reforms and ensuring the 2027 elections are genuinely antiauthoritarian and transparent,” helium stated.

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Momodu rules retired anticipation of Atiku joining APC

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that PDP chieftain and Atiku Abubakar's ally, Dele Momodu, has said the erstwhile Vice President is not readying to articulation the APC.

Legit.ng recalls that the vice-presidential campaigner of the PDP successful the 2023 Nigerian election, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, precocious claimed that his erstwhile principal, Atiku, is connected his mode retired of the PDP.

But speaking successful an interrogation connected Wednesday, April 30, Momodu countered Okowa and stated that Atiku is focused connected the 2027 predetermination arsenic a person of the country's opposition.

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