The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ebonyi State has said that a former lawmaker and governorship aspirant of the party in the 2023 general elections, Senator Obinna Ogba who recently announced that he was moving to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was solely driven by “stomach” needs and survival.
In a statement issued in Abakaliki on Sunday by the Acting State Chairman of the Party, Dr. Augustine Nwazunku, the party revealed that Sen. Ogba and his co-travelers became moles in the party the moment the former lawmaker lost his bid to fly the party’s flag in the Ebonyi State governorship election
According to the party, Ogba waited for the PDP to exhaust its legal actions at the presidential election tribunals because all he cared for was his personal benefits alone.
“Ogba is indulging in politics of willful cynicism devoid of moral considerations. To them, honesty of purpose is old fashioned. He is committed to a hedonistic political behaviour based on Pharonic self-love.
“His decision to leave PDP for APC is because of his failure to win the PDP GUBER primaries in 2022. This is a concrete manifestation of wilful political anarchism, syndicalism, individualism and personality cultism,” the statement reads in part.
“Ogba’s decision to once again make noise about crossing over from PDP to APC is to further negotiate for his mundane benefits, especially against the backdrop of the recent Supreme Court Judgement which favoured President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC. Perhaps if the Supreme Court ruling had gone otherwise, Ogba and his fellow travellers would have gone nowhere,” the party said.
Reiterating its resolve to focus on rebuilding the party and looking ahead, the Ebonyi State PDP noted that ” We in the PDP had decided to forge ahead without the distractions of these planted fifth-columnists.”
The full statement reads:
“The attention of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP), Ebonyi State has been drawn to the latest ignoble campaign of calumny mounted by a few political renegades who betrayed the party during the last 2023 general elections.
“These elements, led by one Sen. Obinna Ogba have since then capitalized on their shameless treacherous capitulation to embark on a series of endless opportunistic activities to make themselves appear too important.
“Ogba is indulging in politics of wilful cynicism devoid of moral considerations. To them, honesty of purpose is old fashioned. He is committed to a hedonistic political behaviour based on Pharonic self-love.
“His decision to leave PDP for APC is because of his failure to win the PDP GUBER primaries in 2022. This is a concrete manifestation of wilful political anarchism, syndicalism, individualism and personality cultism.
“We in the PDP had decided to forge ahead without the distractions of these planted fifth-columnists but they are making the process of leaving PDP for the APC become an endless programme of stage-managed noise-making.
“A few months ago, when Sen. Obinna Ogba opened his private radio station in Abakaliki, he invited APC big wigs including the state status quo Governor, His Excellency, Gov. Francis Ogbonnia Nwifuru. On that occasion, he, Ogba, announced that he was still working out on how to join the ruling party in the state.
“This is seven months after these characters betrayed the PDP and worked for APC during the last general elections. For them to come back now to announce that they were leaving the party is an act of childish political gerry-mandering.
“If we ignore them, they will still come back tomorrow to make more noises. It is unfortunate that people like Sen. Ogba have allowed themselves to be used as willing tools for the destruction of politics in Nigeria. After all, Ogba was an unknown political quantity before the PDP catapulted him to various eminent positions in the state and at the national level which culminated in his going to the Senate for two terms from 2015 to 2023. If he thinks he can destroy the party which made him what he is today, we wish him good luck.
“Ogba’s decision to once again make noise about crossing over from PDP to APC is to further negotiate for his mundane benefits, especially against the backdrop of the recent Supreme Court Judgement which favoured President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC. Perhaps if the Supreme Court ruling had gone otherwise, Ogba and his fellow travellers would have gone nowhere.
“We condemn this politics of crass opportunism founded on the proverbial stomach infrastructure. For Nigerian democratic politics to grow and develop, the dangerous “tendencies represented by the likes of Ogba and their social prostitute types must be exposed and decimated.
“In summary, the weeping exit of Sen. Ogba and his politically independent followers are good riddance of worthless refuse to the final waste disposal site.
