Six local government chairmen of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi State have resigned from the party and are set to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, DAILY POST reports.
It was gathered that the resignation of six out of the 13 local government chairmen of the PDP in the state may be linked to the recent defeat of the party's governorship candidate, Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, in the election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja, by the governor, Francis Nwifuru. The six PDP local government chairmen who resigned from the party are Agbom Friday , Nwofe Philip Don , Nwobasi Ude Chizoba , Chukwu Micheal O , Ifere Sunday Bright and Ndukwe Orji Oka .
However, in a swift reaction, Ebonyi State Chairman of the PDP, Augustine Nwazunku, called on the general public to ignore the development, noting that some of the six LG chairmen are not active members of the party in the state. He said, 'Those persons are acting haphazardly and getting themselves into anti-party activities, because there is a normal process for resigning in the party.
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