Former Anambra State governor, Chinwoke Mbadinuju has defected from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC)
In giving reasons for his decision in Abuja, the former governor who served from 1999 to 2003, hinged his action on the high level of injustice and what he termed, "The use and dump mantra" of the PDP.
Mbadinuju suggested that, "Unless we give justice and fairness its pride of place in our national life, the insurgency will continue unabated."
The former governor who expressed sadness over what he termed the shoddy treatment he and his supporters were subjected to by the President Goodluck Jonathan-led PDP, maintained that Nigeria would fare better under the administration of an APC government.
According to the former governor, "However, the PDP and the government it formed, especially at the national level, took no recognition of both my person and my status. The party behaved as if it never wronged me nor wronged the vast population of Anambranians whose lives I have touched while superintending the state as governor.
"Together with our supporters, we were ignored and the government at the centre operated and still operates as if the PDP members have never existed in Anambra State.
"Whosoever the government patronised turned out to be dishonest or be turned into a mediocre; thus making dishonesty and mediocrity take the centre-stage of government and politics in the country.
"We painfully endured it for long, hoping that with leadership change, things would also change. But from Obasanjo to Yar’Adua, and to Jonathan, nothing changed; if anything, the situation kept getting worse and worse."
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