Ogene, left the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) with over 5,500 supporters of the party from Ogbaru, during the endorsement of Senator Chris Ngige by his party for second term in Anambra central senatorial zone in Awka.
Also, another chieftain of APGA, Chief C. Anakor from Njikoka and a pharmacist in Awka South local government area, Michael Ozoemene defected to APC with their over 1,000 followers each in the two council areas.
Receiving the new members into All Progressive Congress while addressing the members of APC in Anambra Central Senatorial district at Finotel Hotel field in Awka, the party leader in Anambra state and senator representing Anambra Central in the national assembly, Senator Chris Ngige, lauded their courage and assured them of victory according to him, that APC interprets change that all Nigerians are yearning for.
He reiterated the party resolved to repeat the miracle they performed in 2011, when he won the senate seat under the platform of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria that metamorphosed into APC now, buoyed with strong conviction that APC will win all elective offices in the 2015 February general election in the state, and claim other states in the east for the party.
He said ''The other political parties are troublesome ones not only in Anambra but through out the country and that is why APC has come for change in Nigeria”
“I accept this challenge, APC is very much alive in Anambra state, they have done everything possible to kill it, it has not worked”
“APC is battle ready for the elections in the state, not only that we are going to recapture the central senatorial seat, we are going to make forays in so many areas in the state, they have been lobbying us but we will not agree with them”
The chairman of APC National Assembly Primaries Committee, Rt. Hon Gideon N. Sammani, while declaring Ngige winner described the Senator as a grassroots politician and man of the people, whose interst and political clout the party will recovered all other elective offices for the party in Anmabra state.
Responding on behalf of all the APGA decampees, the member representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency and Vice Chairman, House Committee on Information, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra state. said that apart from the chieftains of the party already introduced that decamped with him, he said two others prominent indigenes of Ogbaru Evangelist Dan Obi and Steve Nnaemezie were heavy weights whose influence would not be swept aside when it comes to Ogabru politics have joined the party too.
The lawmaker announced that the two were going to represent Ogbaru I and II state constituencies on the umbrella of APC at the state House of Assembly in 2015.
According to him, “Change has started in the South East, by 2018, APC will sweep Anambra Governorship, and the party will take over Abia, Ebonyi and Enugu states in addition to Imo”
He was said to have been cheated out of APGA during the party’s primaries in his area on the orders of the executive.
Meanwhile, Ashiwaju.org gathered that majority of the members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and APGA are battle ready to quit their parties for APC, because of what they tagged as party imposition of candidates against the people's interest.
It would be recalled that the former chairman of the defunct ACN, Cheif Ameachi Obidike dumped APC for APGA, with his supporters, only time will tell, what would become of next year general election as politicians are busy changing camps to foster their political quest.
