Why I joined APC – Ifeanyi Ubah

<p>Senator Ifeanyi Ubah says he decided to dump the Young Progressives Party (YPP) and defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) because he wants the South-East to align with the Central Government of President Bola Tinubu.</p>, <p>Ubah said this when he visited the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, in company of Senate President, Godswill Akpabio at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.</p>, <p>He appreciated the party’s leadership for accepting him into its fold.</p>, <p>Ubah commended President Tinubu for appointing Dave Umahi as the Minister of Works, in spite of the party recording low votes in the South-East in the 2023 presidential election.</p>, <p>“Our president is rewarding even those who didn’t vote for him, for that it will be very difficult for any man with a conscience not to look at the direction of the centre party.</p>, <p>“I don’t see anyone who will oppose my coming into the APC,” he said.</p>, <p>Ubah added that he consulted widely with his political family and critical stakeholders in the South-East before defecting to the APC.</p>, <p>“It is not all about talking, it is about doing, I believe in action, Mr President just take it from me; I am going to deliver.</p>, <p>“I have made my complaints to President Tinubu in front of the Senate President and he has graciously given me his words that he will support me.</p>, <p>“I want to be sincere; it has always been difficult for the Igbo people to key into the national party because of our sentiments and emotions.</p>, <p>“Our president is a politician who understands how it pains and how to console everybody. He has that capacity,” he said.</p>, <p>Ganduje, while receiving Ubah, said he was the biggest politician that had joined the party since he assumed office as the APC chairman.</p>, <p>“This is the biggest fish I have gotten,” Ganduje said.</p>, <p>He expressed optimism that with Ubah’s defection, the party would soon take over the South-East in the coming elections.</p>