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SENATOR Ifeanyi Ubah, representing Anambra South Senatorial District, has officially joined Nigeria’s ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC.
His statement to join APC was read on the floor of the Senate at a brief plenary held on October 12, by the Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
Senator Ubah, by this move, aims to join forces with other Igbo Progressives and stakeholders in changing the present disadvantaged position of Ndi Igbo in National politics.
The statement reads: “Today, I have moved from the Young Progressives Party, YPP, to the All Progressives Congress, in accordance with my Progressive agenda for an Igbo nation that will take back its pride of place in the national hemisphere.”
Senator Ubah by this move, is pushing for a reconnect to the centre in the post-Buhari era in order to help negotiate better on the various needs of the Southeast region in terms of security, infrastructural development and restoration of the Igbo man’s pride of place in the equitable distribution of national resources.
He told journalists after the plenary that “The idea that things have gotten so bad that politicians from other zones can afford to lose the votes from the five southeastern states and yet win the presidential election is a huge anomaly that contributed hugely to my decision to lead my people back into national reckoning.”
Ubah won his senatorial position in the Senate when he contested under the platform of the YPP in 2019 and 2023, which came into being in 2017. His party also won three seats in State Houses of Assembly and two others in Federal House of Representatives which is still being still hotly contested at the tribunal.
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-October 12, 2023 @ 16:19 GMT |
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