Former
governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji
said he has no intention of leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
for any other political party.
Reacting to
comments by former Abia State House of Assembly Speaker, Stanley Ohajuruka,
that he was not welcomed to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Orji, who is
now senator representing Abia Senatorial District, said: “I have no intention of jettisoning my
relationship with the party, not now, not tomorrow. I love my party.”
A report
quoted Orji as saying: “Let me tell you, if I decide to leave my party, the
party I will join will be very happy because of my antecedent.
“I have a
track record of success as a civil servant and in politics, I have electoral
value, unlike those who are spent forces in all ramifications of their lives.
So, don’t mind them, they just want me to notice them.”
Orji said
people from the South-East, leaving or had left the PDP did so for personal
reasons, while noting that Nigerians could serve Nigeria, irrespective of
political inclination.
“Those who
are leaving the party, citing party problems as a reason, are not sincere,
which is most uncharitable, especially when majority of them have benefitted
hugely from it,” he said.
Ohajuruka
had said members of the APC in Abia State were against people like Orji joining
the party.
He,
therefore, advised the former governor against coming to APC, as doing so would
be a betrayal of former president, Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Mrs.
Patience.
Ohajuruka
told newsmen that Senator Orji’s governance style, while serving as governor
was largely due to his leverage with Jonathan and his wife.
“It will be
heartbreaking to the former president and his wife to see Orji abandon a party
that stood in for him when he was unleashing terror on Abians and owing
salaries of civil servants.
“While more
politicians from this state are expected in no distant time to formally join
the APC, we are against people, like Senator T. A Orji abandoning his party to
also join the moving train. We are not ignorant of the role former president
Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Mrs. Patience played in his governance. It will
therefore, be costly and demeaning of him to even nurse such intention.
“If he still
has conscience, he (Orji) should remain in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
A party that his likes used to show Abia an example of what a leader should not
be,” Ohajuruka said. On APC plans for the next general election in the state,
the former speaker said: “Abia State has suffered so much in the hands of those
who can’t get a handful of votes without manipulating the results. This time
around, such things will no longer be seen nor heard among us.”
We are
reinforcing and if you look at the calibre of people that attended today’s
caucus meeting. You will agree with me that PDP will soon be sent packing.”
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