The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia state has urged Senator Orji Uzor Kalu to desist from misleading the public with fake defections.
PDP in a statement made by its Publicity Secretary in Abia, Fabian Nwankwo accused the former Abia Governor of massaging “his dwindled ego” before the presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the national level.
Nwankwo was reacting to the defection of ‘thousands’ of PDP members to the APC at the Senate Chief Whip’s private residence in Igbere.
According to him, the building cannot contain more than 50 people at a time, stressing that it was deceitful and mischievous of the senator to say that he hosted “thousands of PDP members.”
“We challenge Orji Uzor Kalu to make available pictures of the ‘thousands’ of PDP members he purported to have defected to APC in his residence.
“The pictures being circulated in Abia by his cronies do not make up to twenty people despite the fact that the faces in the pictures are also well known APC members,” he said.
The public secretary therefore warned the presidency not to allow itself to be hoodwinked by the lawmaker “who is so desperate to please it by hook or crook just to shore up his already battered image”.
Nwankwo advised Abians to ignore the “charade of Kalu and continue to support Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and PDP in their giant strides in the overall development of Abia”.
