A former Governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Ahamefule Orji (Ochendo), has formally defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Senator Orji’s defection was confirmed after he had completed the necessary membership formalities with the ruling party at the federal level, a move political analysts say would spark major political realignments in the state.
Orji, elected governor in 2007 on the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) platform, was re-elected in 2011 on the ticket of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on which platform he contested and won the Abia Central Senatorial seat in 2015 and 2019 consecutively and represented the zone in the Senate for two terms.