Deji Elumoye writes about issues surrounding last week’s defection of Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State alongside his Commissioners and aides from the People’s Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
Last Tuesday, the coal city of Enugu was in a total lock down. The entire city played host to the high and mighty in the nation’s political landscape as Governor Peter Mbah as well as his Commissioners and aides formally defected to the ruling All Progressives Congres. A day earlier, Mbah, who was elected Governor in 2023 on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, had held a marathon meeting with members of his political family in Enugu State where he informed them of the need for his political structure to be integrated into the politics at the centre. There and then, he told all present that they are all moving en masse to the All Progressives Congress. At the meeting, flags and souvenirs of the APC were distributed to all in preparation for the formal defection the following day.
Before Mbah’s defection last week, the South East zone of the People’s Democratic Party of which the Enugu State Governor was a major stakeholder had complained on several occasions about the way the zone was being treated by the party at the centre.