Former National Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sunday Udeh-Okoye, has predicted that another South-East state will soon defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Naija News reports that Udeh-Okoye made the claim on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where he criticised the PDP for losing its direction.
“Just wait and see; very soon, another state will fall in the South-East to the APC,” he declared, though he declined to name the specific state.
The ex-PDP youth leader announced his resignation from the party on Monday in a letter addressed to his ward chairman in Agbogugu, Awgu LGA of Enugu State.
His comments came on the heels of Enugu Governor, Peter Mbah’s defection to the APC alongside other PDP leaders in the state.
Udeh-Okoye described the defections as a response to “leadership and management failure” within the PDP, insisting that the APC’s expansion in the region was now unstoppable.
Dismissing speculation that defectors were financially induced, he said, “How can APC threaten us? APC is not offering us anything other than good management. Forget about money, we are not poor or beggars.”
He argued that PDP’s collapse in Enugu was the product of years of internal wrangling and mismanagement.
“PDP is not only dead; what you now have in Enugu, if it still exists at all, is a carcass. The only party that is alive in Enugu today is APC,” he said.
Udeh-Okoye laid the blame squarely on the party’s national officials, accusing them of presiding over PDP’s decline.
He alleged, “Umar Damagum, Samuel Anyanwu, and Umar Bature didn’t come to grow the party; they came to bury it.”
The South-East region comprises Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo states. Currently, APC controls Imo, Ebonyi, and Enugu, while Anambra is governed by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Abia by the Labour Party (LP).
Udeh-Okoye, a former member of the Enugu State House of Assembly (2011–2017), served as PDP’s national youth leader between 2017 and 2021.
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