More Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members from Enugu state have been invited to the APC's Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council (APC).
Dr. Josef Umunnakwe Onoh, one of the 17 PDP candidates for governor in the 2023 election, is prominent among them.
As part of bolstering the campaign council in the south east, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, a supporter of Tinubu, was also included on the list.
Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, a PDP senatorial contender for the 2023 election, was included in the list that caused PDP members in Enugu state and elsewhere to get uneasy before the amended list was made public on Wednesday in Abuja.
Onoh was included as the 43rd member of the Tinubu PCC’s Public Affairs department which is being headed by Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN) as the Chief Spokesman of the campaign council.
Reacting to the development, Onoh said that in as much as he remains a member of the PDP in Enugu state, he must campaign for a southern presidential candidate, particularly one he feels has more potential of wining next year’s presidential election.
“My loyalty to the Asiwaju Presidential aspiration remains unshakable anchored in the principle that the 2023 presidency belongs to a southern, agreement reached in Asaba by the southern governors and stressed in Enugu and Lagos, respectively,” Onoh said.
He disclosed that Tinubu has now restrategized and is more poised to win greater votes in the south east with the enriched members of the campaign Council list from the south east.
Onoh who had acted as the spokesman of the Tinubu campaign council in the south east noted that it was not true, the narrative that people of the south east will not vote for Tinubu, stating that once Asiwaju flags of his campaign, the picture will become more visible in the zone.
The APC members in Enugu state who made the new list include the the party’s governorship candidate, Chief Uche Nnaji; the state party chairman, Mr. Ugochukwu Agballa; it’s legal adviser, B.N Nebe; Chief Joel Mammel, Hon Eugene Odoh, among others.
The list however fell short to include top APC Stalwarts in the state such as ex-Governor Sullivan Chime, Osita Okechukwu, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, among others.