By Amah
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The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has recorded a huge win against the opposition parties in the country.
This time, Peter Mbah, the Enugu State Governor, is set to formally dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, in Enugu, the state capital.
The governor will be moving to the APC alongside 24 lawmakers, 260 councillors, and the entire state Exco as well as political leaders from various local government areas across the state.
The hint of the approaching APC tsunami against the PDP was given by Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, and Deputy National Chairman (South), Hon. Emma Eneukwu, during the inauguration of a seven-member caretaker committee for the party in Enugu.
The party leaders noted that the move is part of efforts to strengthen the APC’s presence in the South-east.
Dr. Ben Nwoye, the newly inaugurated Enugu State APC Caretaker Committee Chairman, confirmed the development in Abuja, adding that Mbah and others would be officially received into the party during the ceremony on Tuesday.
The dissolution of the Enugu State Working Committee (SWC) and constitution of the caretaker team to oversee the party’s affairs in the state by the APC National Working Committee (NWC) were done in deference to Mbah whose exit and the mass exodus from the PDP is a huge blow to the opposition party, especially in the South-east.
A former chairman of the PDP in Enugu State, Chief Augustine Nnamani, had on Monday healed the blame of Mbah’s potential exit from the party at the doorstep of the PDP.
According to report by Vanguard, Nnamani said he would not be surprised if Mbah eventually dumps the PDP for APC.
“Yes, I can confirm that there have been consultations on the future of Enugu State in particular and South East in general, given how the PDP has treated the region. But the final decision lies with the governor at the end of the day based on the aggregations of the feedbacks,” he had said.
“As a PDP devotee, it is painful that things were allowed to deteriorate to this level in our party. The South East PDP had acted in accordance with the directive of the National Working Committee by nominating Hon. Sunday Udeh-Okoye to complete the remaining term of office of the National Secretary occupied by Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who had gone to contest the Imo governorship election. It was supposed to be a routine thing, given the established tradition in the PDP.
“Finally, the Supreme Court, in its considered wisdom, returned the matter to the PDP to decide, saying that neither the court nor the Independent National Electoral Commission had jurisdiction over who becomes party leaders. One expected the party leadership to put their feet down to do the right thing, especially when the NWC and subsequently the PDP Governors’ Forum directed that the South East go back to nominate Anyanwu’s replacement again. But for whatever reason, party leaders kept playing hide and seek.”
Nnamani accused the party of not only betraying Mbah but slso the South-east PDP.
“I have been in this party for so long. Until now, I never saw an entire region thrown under the bus to make one person happy. More so a region like the South East that has successively given the party its all, sometimes even when we had our own sons on the tickets of other parties as presidential and vice presidential candidates.
“Governor Mbah was also betrayed, even by his own colleagues. I say so because I have been in the PDP long enough to know that in matters like this, PDP governors rally around their own. But in this instance, both Mbah and the region were thrown under the bus. The party chose the interest of one man or a few individuals over and above the South East interest and position.
“We must recall that the South East PDP already told the PDP to choose between the region and those narrow interests. So, if Mbah defects, he would only be making good the region’s clear threat to reconsider their future with the PDP if the party continued to disrespect their collective interest and position. And that being the case, the party has itself to blame,” adding that the defection of Mbah would mean that the PDP would lose it’s only governor in the South-east.
“It means that South-east, which used to control the five South-east states, would now be the only geopolitical zone without a PDP governor.
“It will also be a huge loss to the PDP as Governor Mbah is unarguably one of the most celebrated and outstanding governors in Nigeria as of today,” Nnamani posited.
