More than 50, 000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, All Progressives Congress and All Progressives Grand Alliance, respectively will on Saturday formally defect to the Labour Party in Mbaise nation.
The defection ceremony which will take place at Ogbe Ahiara in the Ahiazu Mbaise LGA, has been described as the biggest political earthquake in Mbaise nation’s political history.
Our correspondent gathered that the audacious political move would be led by one of the biggest political chieftains in Mbaise, Chief Ihedioha.
Speaking in Owerri, the state capital ahead of Saturday’s outing, the popular Chief Chikaodi Ihedioha said that the defection ceremony was the resolution of the people of Mbaise to ensure that the LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, won the February 25, 2023, presidential election.
Ihedioha said that the target was to ensure that Obi got 100 per cent of the votes that would be cast in the three LGAs of Mbaise nation during the presidential polls.
More details to follow….