Former Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has formally defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party.
According to The Punch Uduaghan re-joined the PDP at his Unit 1, Ward 6, at Abigborodo, his country home, and was accompanied to the venue by thousands of his supporters amid cheering solidarity songs on Monday.
In reaction to this development Dr. Uduaghan expressed his feeling on his twitter handle, with a post.
He wrote: “I am back to join forces with other party greats to strengthen our party, the largest party in Africa -PDP!,”
He also stated the reasons why he is coming back to PDP, barely one year after he took a critical decision to join APC on 29 August, 2019, in protest of his alleged maltreatment in PDP.
Going memory lane, he contested and lost the Delta South Senatorial seat in 2019 to incumbent Senator James Manager after serving as the Delta State Governor for eight years in the build-up to the 2019 elections.
Before this development occurred, there were insinuations that the former governor is planning a comeback to the PDP in a bid to boost his chances in 2023 as PDP now fully controlled the South-South region.
Interestingly, Uduaghan met with Governor Ifeanyi Okoya two weeks ago to fine-tune plans to return to PDP, his former base.
