The Deputy National Chairman (South) of the Reformed All Progressives Congress and former member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Sam Nkire, has declared his support for the Peoples Democratic Party.
In a statement in Umuahia, Abia State, the former APC chieftain said he decided to join forces with the PDP both at the state and the federal levels in the next general elections because he was convinced that Nigerians wanted the party back to serve them better.
Nkire also said that after all said and done, he had no regrets leaving the APC for the R-APC and now the PDP, adding that it was regrettable to note that the APC had left the country worse than it met it.
The former member of the APC’s Board of Trustees therefore used the opportunity to ask all his loyalists, followers and associates who had been asking him for political direction, especially in Abia State, to now follow him to the PDP.
According to the former National Chairman of the Progressive People’s Alliance, the PDP is the only hope Nigeria has to solve the numerous security, economic and political problems bedeviling it today.
Nkire, who was until recently the Caucus Leader of the APC in Abia State, confessed that he would surely miss his brothers, associates and friends who may choose to remain, but added: “Brothers will always be brothers no matter what party they belonged.”
He said he was sure that the PDP had learnt from its past mistakes and appealed to every Nigerian of voting age who is yet to get a voter’s card to endeavour get one.
The former APC chieftain particularly appealed to all former members of the PDP and the PPA who followed him to the APC to join him in PDP, assuring them that “PDP is now a new, reformed and restructured party ready to serve Nigerians better”.