Former Director Basic of Voice of Nigeria, VON, and founding member of the All Progressives Congress, Osita Okechukwu, on Sunday stated the Southeast is getting ready to say goodbye with the deliberate exit of Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State from the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, PDP.
There are rumours that Mbah will quickly defect from the PDP to the APC.
Reacting, Okechukwu stated Mbah’s exit is a defining political second and a transparent indication that the Southeast geopolitical zone has lastly bid the PDP goodbye.
Addressing journalists on Sunday, Okechukwu recalled the timeless lamentation of the late Dr Chuba Okadigbo, who as soon as warned that the PDP “pays good deeds with unhealthy cash.”
Okechukwu argued that Governor Mbah’s exit vindicates that lamentation, including that Okadigbo’s expertise from the 1999 Jos presidential main the place the previous Vice President and PDP co-founder was sabotaged, to the 2003 election the place Ndigbo naively ignored the Buhari/Okadigbo ticket — stays a historic lesson.
The occasion man criticized the PDP’s “utter disregard” for fairness and justice, particularly in 2023, when the occasion breached the Fourth Republic’s long-standing zoning conference.
He recalled that on the Port Harcourt presidential main, no southern aspirant participated, regardless of repeated appeals for equity and rotation.
Okechukwu stated Mbah’s defection from the PDP to the APC is “a realistic, rational, and inevitable resolution”, symbolizing the full collapse of PDP’s dominance within the Southeast from controlling all 5 state governments in 1999 to having zero governors in 2025.
He stated: “The final straw that broke the PDP’s camel’s again was the deliberate marginalization of the Southeast throughout the controversy over the Nationwide Secretary place.”
He cited the communiqué issued by the PDP South East Zonal Govt Committee (ZEC) after its assembly at Authorities Home, Enugu, on Might 14, 2023, which warned:
“Within the occasion that the Southeast’s place that Sunday Udeh-Okoye ought to change Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who left to contest the Imo governorship election, just isn’t applied promptly, the Southeast PDP, as a household, can be compelled to rethink our relationship with the PDP going ahead.”
Okechukwu additionally referenced remarks by former Senate President and PDP Board of Trustees Chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara, who “decried the continued trampling of the Southeast PDP regardless of the area’s unwavering loyalty to the occasion since 1998.”
Okechukwu maintained that the PDP’s serial betrayal, neglect, and abuse of the Southeast have been ample grounds for Governor Mbah’s long-anticipated defection.
“Governor Mbah’s exit just isn’t an remoted occasion — it’s the closing chapter within the Southeast’s disillusionment with a celebration that did not reward faithfulness, equity, and friendship,”
he added.
