The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has blasted Anambra State Deputy Governor Nkem Okeke for claiming in-house problems forced him to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Okeke had crossed to APC on the claims of internal crisis in APGA.
He was welcomed by President Muhammadu Buhari after a meeting in Abuja on Wednesday.
Reacting to this, the National Publicity Secretary of APGA, Tex Okechukwu, in a statement claimed that Okeke left the party out of the annoyance of failing to secure the governorship ticket of the party.
His words: “The deputy governor had thought that the governor and the party were going to hand over the governorship ticket of the party in the last primary to him on a platter. When that didn’t happen, he started behaving abnormally, even to the point of insubordination and dereliction of duties”.
He advised Governor Willie Obiano not to be moved by Okeke’s defection, adding that it was a calculated attempt by APC to whittle down his strength ahead of the coming governorship election in the state.
Okechukwu also urged the Anambra Chief Executive to remain resolute in delivering the dividends of democracy to the people of the state.
His statement further read, “Let nobody be deceived: APC has no root anywhere in Anambra State and that is why all that they do is going about luring political deadwood with money and other lucres.
“No matter the designs of the opposition and other subterranean forces, APGA is poised to win the forth coming election and continue with the massive infrastructural development going on in the state.”