The senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, at the National Assembly, Andy Uba, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Mr. Uba disclosed this at a news briefing on Wednesday in his home country, Uga, Aguata Local Government Area of the state.
The 58-year-old, who once dumped the PDP for the Labour Party, said he joined the APC at the ongoing registration of party members in the state.
According to him, APC has ideology and focus which he needed to tap into to provide quality representation to his constituents.
Uba further said that he joined the APC because of other personalities in the party with sound ideas and whom he looked up to in politics.
He listed some of the personalities to include the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and APC National Auditor, George Muoghalu.
Uba said that with such calibre of people, the party would take the state to enviable heights.
The senator said he would be very effective in serving the yearnings of his people more now that he was in APC and urged other Igbo politicians to join the bandwagon.
Uba’s registration had doused speculations of his defection to APC which had been on for many weeks in the state.
The ex-special assistant on special duties and domestic affairs to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He is the fourth PDP senator to join the APC.
His defection comes two weeks after Nelson Effiong of Akwa Ibom made the same move.
Joshua Dariye, Plateau, and Yele Omogunwa, Ondo, had earlier defected from the PDP to the APC, citing division in the opposition party.
The APC now has 65 Senators in the 109-member legislative chamber.
