Ifeanyi Ubah: No APC In South-East – Labour Party Insists

The Labour Party (LP) has downplayed the defection of the senator representing Anambra South, Ifeanyi Ubah, to the All Progressives Congress (APC), stressing that his cross carpeting poses no threat to their party.

Naija News recalls that Ubah’s defection to the ruling APC was announced on the floor of the Senate on Thursday.

Speaking on Ubah’s defection, the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, has said the defection of the senator to the ruling party will herald a wind of revolution that will liberate the South-East.

Ganduje said this during the official presentation of the senator representing Anambra South by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.

Addressing newsmen at the party secretariat, the APC Chairman described Ubah as a ‘big fish’ who has enormous political clout in Anambra politics.

The former Kano State governor also expressed strong conviction that his defection to the ruling party would herald a wind of revolution that would liberate the South-East.

But reacting swiftly, the National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Obiora Ifoh, maintained that the LP candidate, Senator Athan Achonu, would unseat Governor Hope Uzodimma ahead of the November 11 governorship election.

Kicking against Ganduje’s declaration, Ifoh insisting that Ubah jumped ship to brighten the chances of pursuing his Anambra governorship ambition.

He said, “Don’t get it wrong. Ifeanyi Ubah is from Anambra State and I can tell you that he defected because of his governorship ambition which he can never get with the ticket of YPP. So, he needed a party that has a Federal Government support to be able to ride the crest.

“I am saying the APC is non-existent anywhere in the South-East. Let me repeat it again. The LP is the South-East party, not the APC. That also showed during the 2023 general elections.

“For the first time the LP contested fully, they won virtually every position in the South-East, with the exception of the areas they were rigged out.”