Huge boost for Peter Obi as AA Reps candidate, women leader, 100 others defect to LP

The Labour Party in Ebonyi got a huge boost when the Action Alliance (AA) House of Representatives candidate for Ebonyi/Ohaukwu Federal constituency, Mr. Chinedu Adum defected to the party.

Adum defected alongside the women leader of the party in the state, Ijere Ngozika and over one hundred loyalists.

The defectors said the AA had no future and plans for the people of Ebonyi State in a conference at the Nkwagu-Ugbala ground Arena located along Old Abakaliki-Enugu express road.

They also revealed their readiness to collapse the AA structure in the state and convert it to the Labour Party ahead of the election in the state.

Responding, the gubernatorial candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Edward Nkwagu said the decampees have been accepted and adopted as its party members.

He tasked them to be of good character and show committed efforts to ensure that the LP candidates won the 2023 general election.

Nkwagu also named the former Auditor general of Ebonyi State, Mr. George Ukpai as the new Director-General, DG, of his Labour Party campaign organisation in the State.

According to him: “we received a group of people from Action Alliance into the Labour Party, LP, in Ebonyi State. The decampees are now members of Labour Party, LP. We also received a group of the physically challenged persons who came and declared their support for the Obi-dient movement and Labour Party in the State.”