Ex Anambra Governor, Jim Nwobodo Dumps PDP For APC

A former minister of information, and governor of the old Anambra State, Chief Jim Nwobodo, on Friday defected to the All Progressive Congress.

 

Nwobodo, a former Senator and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, attended an APC meeting, reportedly convened by Foreign Affairs minister, Dr. Jeffrey Onyeama, in Enugu.

 

He declared his membership of the party at the meeting, to the surprise of most of the APC members present at the event.

 

 

 

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A former PDP senator from Enugu State, Chief Fidelis Okoro, also defected to the APC at the meeting.

 

Okoro was in the Senate between 1999 and 2007.

 

There were indications that the former PDP bigwigs’ defection did not go down well with the some APC members, who openly voiced their dissatisfaction with the development at the meeting.

 

The party faithful could not hide their surprise, and shock, when Nwobodo arrived at the venue of the meeting in company with Okoro.

 

Some APC members, who apparently understood the duo’s mission at the meeting, voiced their disapproval.

 

Chairman of the party in Enugu State, Dr. Ben Nwoye, who appeared to have prior knowledge of the defection, got the aggrieved party members to calm down before Nwobodo made his declaration speech.

 

In his declaration speech, Nwobodo had harsh words for his old party, PDP.

 

 

-Punch-