- A PDP secretariat in Enugu has been taken over by the APC
- The building was donated to the PDP by Sullivan Chime who has now moved to the APC
- He declared the party as dead and buried
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken over the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party in Enugu declaring that “Change has come to the state.”
Vanguard reports that “a building on Chime Lane, a street in the GRA part of the Enugu metropolis, which had served as the secretariat of the PDP in Enugu State for several years, is now the office of the Enugu State chapter of the APC.”
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It was reported that flags, posters, banners, billboards and other paraphernalia of the PDP which used to adorn the duplex were stripped and replaced with an APC signboard that read ‘All Progressives Congress, Change Has Come.’
This takeover of the building is said to occour due to the defection of former governor of the state, Sullivan Chime, to the APC.
Chime served as governor of Enugu for eight years on the platform of the PDP before he declared the party dead and buried and moved to the ruling party.
A PDP member in the state explained that the building actually belonged to Chime and that he donated it to the party to be used as a secretariat when he was governor.
The source said: “Chime gave us (Enugu State PDP) the building when he became governor. We used the building as the Enugu State secretariat of the PDP all through the eight years that Chime served as governor of Enugu State.
“Now that he is no longer the governor, and having also joined another political party, he has taken the building from us and given it to the APC.
“He has the right to do what he did; we (PDP) already have a new secretariat, it is nothing to worry about.”
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An APC member in the state who also spoke anonymously described the takeover of the building as “imminent conquest of the seat of power in Enugu State in the 2015 governorship election.”
“The APC has come to stay in Enugu and we are going to take over the state in 2019, there is no going back,” the APC member added in a chat with our correspondent. Enugu State, home of the highest-ranking PDP member, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, is generally regarded as a ‘PDP state.’
