Anambra election: Stella Oduah reveals Buhari’s achievements in southeast, blasts critics
- Senator Stella Oduah has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Andy Uba would win the Anambra election
- The former minister of aviation recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to pitch a tent with the APC
- Oduah noted that she decided to dump from the PDP to APC to enable her to do more for her constituency
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Awka, Anambra - The lawmaker representing Anambra North senatorial district of Anambra state, Stella Oduah, has said any person who says president Muhammadu Buhari is not doing well in the southeast is not fair to himself and the zone.
Daily Trust reports that Oduah said she defected from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress (APC) to enable her to attract more dividends of democracy to her constituents.
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Legit.ng gathered that Oduah, who was represented by Amaka Ononuju, at her defection to APC at the state party secretariat, Awka, said that she decided to dump from the PDP to APC to enable her to do more for her constituency.
She said as a member of the opposition party she was unable to do much to the development of her people.
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Oduah said:
“It will amount to a self-deceit for anyone to say that President Muhammadu Buhari, and, APC do not mean well for the southeast region."
The senator, however, commended Buhari for the level of infrastructural developments his administration had executed in the southeast.
She said the record of the many infrastructural developments done in the southeast by the APC federal government of Buhari are there for anyone to see.
A former House of Representatives member for Ogbaru federal constituency, Victor Afam Ogene, described Senator Oduah’s entry into APC as a boost to the party’s chances of victory in the governorship election.
Six APGA lawmakers defect to APC ahead of Anambra election
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that ahead of the November 6, governorship election in Anambra state, six members of the Anambra state House of Assembly elected on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) defected to the APC.
It was reported that the defection which took place on the night of Tuesday, August 31, boosted the chances of the APC to defeat the candidate of the ruling APGA at the poll.
The defectors were received by the chairman APC caretaker and extraordinary convention planning committee and Yobe state governor, Mai Mala Buni.
Source: Legit.ng