As part of its strategies towards reclaiming states it lost to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has embarked on a serious membership recruitment drive to get some heavyweights into its fold.
One of such moves has paid off in Kogi State where the party’s overtures to the 2019 Governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the state, Chief Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has now materialized.
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The National Working Committee NWC of the PDP, led by its National Chairman, Dr Iyiorcha Ayu, had on March 5 attended the wedding of Natasha to High Chief Emmanuel Oritsejolomi Uduaghan in Kogi State, a move that was seen as a consolidation of the efforts to woo the social entrepreneur to the PDP.
Accordingly, all is now set for the defection of Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan to the PDP this Saturday in Kogi state.
The philanthropist-turned politician confirmed the development, saying, “Yes, everything is set.
“We have reached an understanding with stakeholders and our teeming supporters and we going to the PDP”.
A statement from her media directorate which was made available to journalists in Abuja noted that Akpoti-Uduaghan has demonstrated an uncommon knack for purposeful leadership.
“It is an incontrovertible fact that she is miles away from other crops of politicians who are only visible during electioneering.
“She has been with her people and contributing immensely to alleviate their predicaments.
“The warmly most-talked-about altruistic politician has done so much being a private citizen.
“Moved by the perennial scarcity of water and the need to uplift her people, she provided potable water supply at strategic locations across Kogi State, empowered hundredths of thousands of women and youths through her impact investment mission and provided succour to the less privileged through donations of food materials and cash.
“If she has done all of these from her personal resources, it is only wise and appropriate that we support her to a position of authority where her full capacity and the extent of her virtues can be displayed.
“Moving to the PDP to actualize her dream of contributing more to the development of her people is not just strategic, it is equally deserving.
“She has the capacity and the people at her back to domesticate governance that seems a rocket science”.
