Anambra senator, Stella Oduah defects from PDP to APC

Stella Oduah, senator representing Anambra North, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and moved to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Oduah was formally welcomed into the APC at a brief ceremony held in Abuja on Thursday.

National Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee, Mai Mala Buni, led other leaders of the party including Ovie Omo-Agege (Deputy Senate President) Atiku Bagudu, (Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum), and Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State Governor, to received the new defector.

Andy Uba, a former senator and APC candidate in the November 2021 Anambra governorship election, was also present at the event.

Buni promised that Oduah would be granted all the privileges accorded to APC members.

“You will enjoy the privileges enjoyed by all members of the party because you will have a waiver,” the Yobe governor said.

Oduah said she joined the ruling party because she wanted to change the “political narrative” in the South-East region of the country.

The senator said her supporters in Anambra were “jubilating” that she had joined the ruling party.

Oduah’s defection comes amid a crisis in the opposition party.

There have been calls by members of the party that Uche Secondus should resign from his position as the PDP national chairman.

Yomi Akinwonmi, deputy national chairman (south), was named the acting national chairman of the party on Thursday, following a court order restraining Secondus from parading himself as the PDP national chairman.