The House of Representatives member from Ideato federal constituency of Imo State, Ikenga Ugochinyere, has disclosed that two more state governors and 40 lawmakers on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will soon defect.
Ugochinyere urged the PDP National Working Committee, NWC, to urgently take steps towards addressing the imminent danger.
He disclosed this while addressing PDP members in Akokwa area of Imo State on Friday.
The lawmaker also urged the PDP to rectify the removal of the party’s acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum and replace him with a candidate from the Northcentral.
Ugochinyere also called for the expulsion of PDP’s embattled National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, stressing that the party is sinking.
He said: “Because of this crisis which we all must stand up to now, I can confirm to you that two more governors from our party want to decamp and 40 lawmakers want to decamp. PDP is sinking and it’s sinking very fast.
“Averting this imminent danger which will happen in a matter of days, the NWC must immediately rise up and summon an emergency meeting of the party with their simple majority which they already have with or without Damagum to expel Anyanwu who is the political traitor from the party and also rectify the removal of Damagum by appointing a North Central person as the substantive National Chairman of our party.
“This is not difficult for the NWC, do this before what is left goes away and also adopt the Ikimi report by completely suspending and removing Anyanwu from the party. Are you people not men? Somebody has vowed to bury the party and you have not done anything, if NWC fails to act, the consequences is that those remaining will go and nothing will remain of the party.”
This comes as PDP’s former presidential running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa and Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
