Former Chief of Army Staff , Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika has said the Abia State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is rotten.
He, however, urged the people of Aba to vote for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Saturday’s Aba North/Aba South Federal Constituency by-election, Mascot Orji Uzor Kalu.
Speaking during the campaign of the APC at Ariaria Market, General Ihejirika chided the PDP for the poor state of the market.
He explained that the PDP pleaded with him not to decamp to the APC, adding that the PDP was worried over his decision to leave for APC.
He said: “If the votes are counted, your votes will count. This is not the time that after counting, they will go behind and rewrite the results.
“We will vote and we will win. When I was coming here, I was disturbed by the level of decay here and as we got to that junction, I heard a small boy saying that this road was built by Orji Uzor Kalu while he was a governor and no government has added to it .
“There was another place we got to, everywhere is rotten and smelling. I never knew Ariaria is this bad. I used to hear that the road in Ariaria is bad.
“ This Ariaria was the best market in West Africa before 20007. If there are people that would leave their personal things to deteriorate and go bad like this, then, I need not make friends with them.
“Those I have relationship with are progressive people and APC is that party with progressive people. APC is the only Party through which good things can reach the people”.
“There is this thing that gets me angry about some people. When I joined the APC, so many of them in the PDP came asking me why I left them? I was bold to tell them that I see no progress in what they do, in their governance for the people.
“Many of them in the PDP agreed with me. So many of these PDP people that came to me, admitted that the state is not progressing but if they are before their masters and the public, they will praise the bad government to keep their daily bread. We will follow APC because they have the vision”.
