Owerri – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-East will henceforth make it difficult and impossible, if necessary, for any of its members who defected to other parties to rejoin it.
The party’s National Vice-Chairman, South-East, Chief Olisa Metu, stated the party’s position at a news conference in Owerri.
Metu said it had become necessary for the party to take such a stand in order to check the crises that had been rocking the party in the zone for some time now.
“Such crises are usually caused by members who defected to other parties and later rejoined it, after failing to find their bearing in the parties,’’ he said.
The National Vice-Chairman said the PDP in the South-East was not worried that the more than seven million registered voters in the zone was far less than that of the North-West zone.
Provisional voters register released recently by INEC showed that the South-West topped the list with a figure more than those of the South-East and South-South combined.
According to the register, the North-West zone has more than 18 million registered voters.
Metu pointed out that the Igbos constituted a good percentage of registered voters in Lagos and Kano, the two states with the highest number of registered voters.
He said: “Our people are detribalised and that is why they never bothered to return home and register as voters, they registered where they live and will vote for PDP candidates there.”
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