By Onome Oghenetega
The Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the defection of the senator representing Delta North Senatorial District at the Senate, Mr. Peter Nwaoboshi, to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party said Nwaoboshi had already been suspended from the PDP before he joined the APC where he had gone to shield himself from cases of corruption leveled against him.
Nwaoboshi, a one-time state chairman of the PDP, dumped the party for the APC when he visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Friday in Abuja.
He was received into APC by President Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee and governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, and Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.
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With Nwaoboshi’s defection, APC now has two senators and one House of Representatives member from Delta State.
However, Delta PDP in a statement signed by its State Publicity Secretary, Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza, lambasted Nwaoboshi for betraying the party under which he rose to limelight in national politics at the Senate.
Osuoza said there was a wild jubilation among PDP members in the state that Nwaoboshi had finally left to the APC where he would be shielded from prosecution for numerous corruption cases already daggling around his neck.
“Nobody is weeping over the exit of a man that was clearly guided out of the PDP to prevent the party from being infested with his bad and unseemly manners.
“For us, in PDP, Nwaoboshi’s movement remains good riddance to bad rubbish, considering his numerous corruption cases, after all, he has gone to a party that its former National Chairman once called out that; ‘all those suffering from corruption should cross over for succour and their ‘sins’ shall be forgiven’.
“We wish them good luck in the marriage of the compatible”, the statement said.
The statement further accused the lawmaker of failing to adequately represent the people of Delta North especially for failing to speak up on activities of marauding herdsmen and issues of open grazing as it affects the people of his district
“We wish to state categorically for the avoidance of doubt and also to set the records straight, that Senator Peter Nwaoboshi had already been duly suspended by the State working Committee of our party, following his recent romance with an opposition party, his verbal recklessness, and unprovoked utterances against the person of His Excellency, Senator, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State.
“Those unbecoming attitude of the Senator exposed him as indecorous and lacking discipline which the PDP cherishes so much. The party had to quickly rise to the occasion by treating him like a mad cow in the china shop and manage his exit through suspension so as to save the soul of the PDP in the State.
“His inevitable exit, therefore, has left a wave of joy in the party as faithful and loyal party members see the move as good riddance to bad rubbish.
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“Indeed, the PDP having noticed the undisguised footsteps of Nwaoboshi in hobnobbing with the opposition party in betrayal of the goodwill given to him by the PDP through which he became a Senator had watched with bated breath how Nwaoboshi exposed himself as an ingrate and worked with the opposition to undermine and backstab the PDP that brought him to national limelight.
“During the period of Nwaoboshi’s flirtations with the opposition, he betrayed the people of Delta North with below par representation and never showed interest in matters that concerned them as they cried out against insecurity and open grazing that has left the largely agrarian communities rather prostrate and helpless in the hands of marauding and murderous herdsmen.
“He denied the people their voice which he had in the Senate, all in a premeditated move to feather his own nest to the detriment of the people he claimed to represent”, Osuoza, a former commissioner in the state, added.
