Immediate past governor of Ebonyi, Chief Martin Elechi on
Sunday decamped to the All Progressive Congress from the Peoples Democratic
Party.
Elechi, a two time governor of Ebony, registered for the APC
at his country home in Echialike, Ikwo Local Government Area, in front of
national party leaders.
The party leaders were in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi capital, for
a thanksgiving church service for the recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari
from his ill-health, after which they moved to Ikwo.
According to Elechi, he decided to join APC due to his love
for Buhari and the current state of the PDP occasioned by its protracted
crisis.
“I knew Buhari 49 years ago when I started the movement for
the creation of Ebonyi as he intervened during my arrest with nine other
comrades, by officers of the defunct Nigerian Security Organisation.
“I was interrogated while standing for nine hours and he as
the Brigade Major in Abakaliki at that time, ordered our immediate release.
“I thank God for his health as he had favoured the people of
Abakaliki and will triumph in his onerous task of rescuing the country from
misrule.
“He is the person Nigerians are waiting for as the Boko
Haram and corruption issues could have been indescribable if God had not
brought him to power,” he said.
The former governor said that he was proud of the PDP due to
the democratic ideals of its founding fathers, but its present leaders have
truncated the ideal.
He described the APC as the alternative for Ebonyi people
and the Igbo race and thanked the party for offering him and his supporters, a
political platform to identify with.
This story was first published on PUNCH
