I will join APC ---- Senator Abe

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(Nigeria) Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Senator Magnus Abe,  said he will soon join All Progressives Congress, APC, insisting that there was no provision in the constitution preventing him from doing so with the present turmoil in Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Speaking at Bori, headquarters of Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, during his third annual interactive session with youths from the seven local government areas that make up the Rivers South-East senatorial district of the state, he said “I am going to cross to APC. Even if, it is only one senator that will cross from PDP to APC, you can go and write it down, Magnus Abe will be that senator; I will cross. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria guarantees freedom of association. It says if there is division in your political association, you can cross.”
The lawmaker said that the crisis rocking PDP, which led to the walk-out of some aggrieved members of the party and subsequent formation of a faction of the ruling party, justifies the decision to dump PDP for APC.
“Everybody in Nigeria knows that there was a walkout during the convention of PDP and that resulted in the formation of a faction. That faction has now merged with APC. So, what am I doing in PDP when my faction is in APC?  This country belongs to all of us, Nigerians must oppose this idea that once you hold power, it is your personal estate and you can do whatever you like.
“Have people not been crossing to  PDP? How many governors have crossed from other parties to the PDP? Was Orji Kalu of Abia State not elected on the platform of another party? Is he not in PDP today? Did they go to hang him? People have been crossing over to PDP, suddenly, you said, people cannot cross. There can only be one rule for all Nigerians. That is how other countries make progress.”
Earlier in his remarks, the Speaker of the Rivers State Youth Parliament, Mr. Ijok Emmanuel, commended Senator Abe for all he had done for students and youths of the Rivers South-East senatorial district since he was elected into the National Assembly.

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