There Is Nothing In APC To Attract Ekweremadu – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday debunked the rumour that made the rounds that the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, had finalised plans to leave the party for the All Progressives Congress.

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiya, stated the party’s position on Tuesday.

Ologbondiyan said there was nothing in the APC to attract Ekweremadu into its fold.

He said: “Why would someone like the DSP (Deputy Senate President ) consider joining the APC?

“This is a party that the highest court in the land just described as being stupid.

“Who will leave a rebranded party like the PDP and join such a party that has been described in such a derogatory word?

“Forget the rumour.

“Dr Ekweremadu is with us and will never join a party like APC that is enmeshed in eternal crisis.”Rumours had made the social media on Tuesday that Ekweremadu was planning to leave the PDP.

The Eagle Online gathered that this followed a meeting Ekweremadu had with his supporters in his Enugu home.

The meeting, sources said, dragged late into the night.

Impeccable sources told The Eagle Online that the fear in Ekweremadu’s camp is that he would no longer be among the country’s top leaders in 2019 should the PDP win the presidential race.

The calculation is that with the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, having picked another South Easterner, Peter Obi, as vice presidential candidate, Ekweremadu cannot aspire to emerge as the President of the Senate or retain his present position.

One of the sources said: “That was why his supporters kicked when Obi was announced as the vice presidential candidate because the calculation was that their own man would be chosen.

“Now that he has missed that, the thinking is that he would not longer be relevant in the scheme of things from 2019 even if he returns to the Senate.”

Ekweremadu’s name has already been submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission as one of the three senatorial aspirants of the PDP for Enugu State.