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Enugu East Senatorial zone stakeholders have stated that they would fully support Governor Peter Mbah regardless of political party in response to pressure on him to switch to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Prior to the general elections in 2027, ZINGTIE recalls that a number of APC leaders in the state had been urging the governor to join the party.

Despite the fact that the zone is thought to have remained loyal to the PDP more than any other region, Governor Mbah and other South-East officials inside the party have expressed their displeasure with the treatment given to it.

This has increased the likelihood that Mbah will give in to pressure and join the APC.

They stated that Mbah is their political party at a gathering of Enugu East stakeholders on Sunday, and that anyone who plans to buy a governorship form in 2027 in order to run against the governor could be squandering their money.

In reiterating his call for Mbah to join the APC, one of the stakeholders, Barr Ben Nwoye, a former state APC chairman, called Chief Uche Nnaji a sleeping minister who has no place in the government house.

The APC’s 2023 guber candidate, Nnaji, Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, is thought to be harboring similar aspirations.

At the Enugu East gathering, Barr Chijioke Edeoga spoke in addition to Nwoye, the Labour Party’s 2023 guber candidate. He then moved a motion declaring Mbah the zone’s only candidate for the 2027 guber election.

There was universal support for the proposition.

Following the meeting, the stakeholders also released a statement in which they declared, “We want to state that we are blind to party affiliation.”

“In the face of Nigeria’s fluid party politics, our political party is Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, a performing Governor, who has shown that he not only has what it takes to turn Enugu State around, but also to take it to the pinnacle of glory where our founding fathers dreamt of.”

As they repeatedly emphasized the state’s zoning structure, the leaders of Enugu East also urged “our brothers and sisters from Enugu North and Enugu West Senatorial Districts to return the favour we accorded them in 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019, as no son or daughter of Enugu East Senatorial District was on the ballot for the governorship seat of Enugu State during those election cycles.

“This we did in deliberate deference to the subsisting zoning arrangement in Enugu State as established by our founding fathers.

“This arrangement guaranteed two terms in office for Enugu West Senatorial District through His Excellency, Barr. Sullivan Chime, from 2007 to 2015, and Enugu North Senatorial District through His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, from 2015 to 2023. Mbah’s case will not be different.”

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