Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has completely dismissed what it described as a false newspaper report alleging that PDP members in Imo State are defecting to the APC on Gov. Hope Uzodimma’s performance.
In a statement issued in Owerri by its State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Lancelot Obiaku, he denied such a claim of mass defection of its members into the ruling party.
He said it is aware that such claims emanated from an insignificant few “stranded and irrelevant” politicians who want to use the party’s prestigious name to attract attention to themselves in their gullible quest to earn “stomach infrastructure.
Describing them as transactional, mercantile interlopers and moles already rejected by the PDP, the party emphasized that genuine PDP members have remained loyal and committed.
According to him, across the 305 wards and 27 LGAs of the State, the party’s structure is standing firm without leadership tussles or internal discord.
PDP warned the APC in the State to beware of such empty politicians who come to them now with enticing words, as they are only after their stomach, noting that no true PDP member would otherwise join the APC on the fictional premise of “Uzodimma’s performance,” despite the poverty, insecurity, and rural infrastructural decay that have characterized the APC regime in the State, and the attendant public resentment against it.
He said: “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State chapter, sends a note of caution to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State to beware of the few characters who recently claimed to have joined its platform from the party, after trying to cash in on a recent Imo APC stakeholders’ meeting on March 2, 2026, to procure elusive relevance”.
The party categorically stated that those men were never committed members of the PDP but were mercantile interlopers and moles who easily sold out to other parties while pretending to mean well for the party.
He said: “Unfortunately for them, after a failed attempt during the 2024 congresses to hijack the party’s structure in a few LGAs and wards with the intent to sell it to their paymasters, they were left stranded in the political wilderness, licking their wounds after being roundly conquered”.
The party said that after Imo PDP, having decoded their secret ploy, built an impermeable wall of resistance which shut both them and the trouble and disaffection they aimed to cause within the party’s ranks out for good.
He described what happened as neither a loss to the party nor a defection from it; rather, it was a seal of liberation the party secured from their official exits.
He insisted that this is the final piece in Imo PDP’s hard-won rebirth. Alleluia!
He said: “Considering their treacherous, self-serving, and recalcitrant nature, Imo APC has every reason to worry about these individuals. Of course, we know they will surely play key roles in the party’s impending implosion in the State”.
PDP noted with dismay an emerging trend where people who have no business with the PDP use its name to create relevance for themselves and earn crumbs from the leprous Imo APC.
The party therefore warns that while people have their inalienable right to freedom of association, such individuals who wish to identify with any political platform, no matter how unpopular, should do so without tagging the PDP to it, as such actions will naturally come with consequences.
He maintained that in the meantime, Imo PDP remains strong, prepared, and marching forward as the only party with undeniable and irresistible spread in the nooks and crannies of the State, adding that the recent Imo PDP Women Summit proved this fact beyond reasonable doubt, as thousands of women organically and ebulliently attended the function.
He said: “The party is therefore focused on upcoming programmes in the lead-up to its primary elections ahead of the 2027 general elections. Also, Imo PDP is earnestly getting set to take a strong contingent of eligible delegates to the long-awaited, all-inclusive National Convention in Abuja on March 29 and 30, 2026.”