Erstwhile PDP Senator Formally Joins APC

Nkechi Nwaogu, the senator formerly representing Abia Central senatorial district, has officially defected from the former ruling Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.

The senator, who first joined the Senate in 2003, condemned the economic policies of the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration, saying that they were shrouded in secrecy.

Nwaogu visited the APC national headquarters in Abuja today, November 5, where she said she came to express her appreciation to the national leadership of the party for its support and concern during her late husband’s funeral, Leadership reports.

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She said: “l am here to fraternise myself once again with my party, APC, to identify myself, to associate myself with the change train and anybody today in this country who does not realise that this is a divine mandate given to APC to usher in change to sustain change, to bring about change in all endeavours of our lives especially in our economic lives is not realistic.

“We all know what has been happening or what has happened in the economy of our dear nation that it was shrouded in secrecy. Thanks to the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari and the change doctrine, change mantra and change advocates.

The Abia senator said that those who have sworn not to conceive anything of the truth would not see the much talked about change explaining that even the holy book says that it is only the truth that can set us free.

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“For us to attempt to bring to a level of acceptance for the president to remove the present level of unemployment, to remove or try to see how we can increase our revenue, to see that we have no other country other than Nigeria, therefore everybody has a contribution to make towards revamping this nation.

“This nation is blessed with natural resources. It beholds on us to put our brains and our contributions together as citizens of this nation to ensure that when we train our children out from tertiary institutions, that they do not come out to roam in the street. They say an idea man is a devil’s workshop.

“I am pledging to the family of APC that I am now part of APC that is to say that wherever l would be called upon l will serve and l also use this medium to solicit everybody who has agreed to join this party to ensure that you have something positive to contribute towards nation building.”

The senator spoke in the company of two APC Board of Trustees members, Chief Sam Nkire and Chief Chris Akomas, a former deputy governor of Abia state.

Commending the APC and President Buhari for the new mantra of change, she also added that those who are joining or have joined the APC are people of positive minds.

Meanwhile, the opposition PDP accused senators on the platform of the APC of acting out their party’s script by rejecting the N5,000 monthly stipend for unemployed youth which the ruling party promised Nigerians during the election campaign.

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