Senator Representing Southern senatorial district of Cross River Sate Sen. Gershom Bassey who is one of the founding fathers of PDP in cross River state have revealed that Sen. John Owan Enoh’s defection to APC will have much effect on the party’s fortune while stating that the defection of the likes of Sen. Florence Ita-Giwa , Chief Edem Duke and others who have not been active in the party can’t be a threat to the party.
The Distinguished senator who made this known recently in an interview with Johnbosco Agbakwuru, expressed optimism that PDP will bounce back to power in the forthcoming elections notwithstanding the current misfortune it is experiencing.
Sen. Geshome Bassey insisted that PDP is alive
and well because at the grass root the party still enjoys tremendous support
from Nigerians. He further observed that though the party is still
suffering some leadership crisis at the national level, but the party is
intact at the state (Cross River) level.
“…Look I don’t think it is about PDP or
APC. I think at this point of our history, it is about Nigeria and we need to
say look, what are we going to do to put Nigeria back to the pedestal where it
used to be. That is what we are going to do, and it is across party lines. We
need to sit down as a political class and look at how we are going to move our
country forward that is the real issue. I am still a PDP member and whenever I
go to my constituency and call for meeting everywhere will be full that shows
that PDP is alive and well. If any of my colleagues in the PDP goes home and
calls a meeting in his constituency, the hall will be full. So, the PDP is
still alive and kicking. PDP is alive and well because, at the grassroots, the
party still has tremendous support. Yes, there are issues at the leadership
level, that is, at the national leadership level because in my state (Cross
River) the party is intact.” Said Sen. Bassey
The Sen. revealed that the decamping of Sen. Owan Enoh is a loss to the party but the equation is balanced as some APC members in Owan's LGA have also moved to PDP. He made it clear that the defection made by other members of the party does not have much effect on the party as they were not active even while in the PDP.
In his words:
"Well, I think that John Owan Enoh has
some followership in the state and so we see him as a loss to the PDP. But like
I said, even from his local government, others have moved from the APC to the
PDP. So, there is a net effect which in the end probably might balance
that."
"...Senator Florence has
not been very active recently. I think she has been more involved in other
issues; I am not sure she has been so active on the ground. Apart from John
Owan Enoh as I said, I don’t see much effect from others that have
defected."
Ukorebi Esien
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