The hurricane of defections hitting the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) assumed a serious dimension on Friday when the
party’s former national chairman, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, visited the
national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja.
Ogbulafor arrived at the secretariat at about 2.35pm, and went into a closed door meeting with the APC national chairman, Chief John Oyegun.
The meeting lasted for about 40 minutes.
It will be recalled that as sitting PDP national chairman, Ogbulafor scored a first when he boasted in 2008 that the PDP would rule Nigeria for 60 years.
The phrase later became a maxim for party members even in the last presidential election campaign.
But it was not long before things fell apart between the Abia state-born politician and President Goodluck Jonathan as a result of a statement credited to him before the 2011 general elections that power must remain in the north till 2015.
The statement was seen as an affront to Jonathan who, though he was serving out the term of his former boss, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua also haboured ambitions for 2011.
Ogbulafor was later forced to resign and then faced court for several years over charges of financial embezzlement.
Coming out of the APC office, Ogbulafor was accosted by journalists who enquired the reason for his mission at the opposition office.
Responding, Ogbulafor said he was at the secretariat to congratulate the APC national chairman for “a job well done”.
He said that for the first time, a political party has produced a Nigerian president in the person of General Mohammadu Buahri.
Prince Vincent Ogbulafor
The meeting lasted for about 40 minutes.
It will be recalled that as sitting PDP national chairman, Ogbulafor scored a first when he boasted in 2008 that the PDP would rule Nigeria for 60 years.
The phrase later became a maxim for party members even in the last presidential election campaign.
But it was not long before things fell apart between the Abia state-born politician and President Goodluck Jonathan as a result of a statement credited to him before the 2011 general elections that power must remain in the north till 2015.
The statement was seen as an affront to Jonathan who, though he was serving out the term of his former boss, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua also haboured ambitions for 2011.
Ogbulafor was later forced to resign and then faced court for several years over charges of financial embezzlement.
Coming out of the APC office, Ogbulafor was accosted by journalists who enquired the reason for his mission at the opposition office.
Responding, Ogbulafor said he was at the secretariat to congratulate the APC national chairman for “a job well done”.
He said that for the first time, a political party has produced a Nigerian president in the person of General Mohammadu Buahri.
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