APC National Chairman, Ganduje, Flays Alleged Over Taxation In Enugu, Vows Party Would Displace Peter Mbah in 2027

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and immediate past governor of Kano State, Alhaji Umar Abdullahi Ganduje has decried what he described as over taxation of the poor masses in Enugu State .
Ganduje said that the Enugu State governor, Peter Mbah, had been "running around, begging to be allowed into the APC," adding however that, "that won't happen. It is fa fa fa, foul. It won't happen."
Ganduje said that the APC would displace the ruling Peoplles Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu  2027.
He spoke at Akama-Oghe in Ezeagu Local Government Area of the state, when he led the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji and other prominent members of the party to officially receive the member representing Udi/Ezeagu federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Sunday Cyriacus Umeha and the entire Labour Party structure in the constituency into the APC, weekend.
Umeha, is the first LP lawmaker, who decamped to the  APC  as his former colleagues had earlier re+joined the ruling PDP, in the state, after decamping from the Labour Party, since crisis erupted in the party. APC has never produced any law maker since it's formation in 2014.
Those who had earlier defected from the LP and joined the PDP in the state included: Hon Dennis  Nnamdi Agbo, representing Igbo Eze North/ Udenu in the House of Representatives, alongside with his supporters and joined the PDP, Hon Chidi Obeta, for Nsukka/ Igbo Eze South among others.
However, speaking on the occasion, Ganduje, who was represented by the APC Deputy National Chairman, South, Chief Emma Eneukwu, noted that the party would take over the governance of Enugu State in 2027 noting that the present  administrator of PDP's Peter Mbah was in its last term.
His words, “APC is the transformer giving light to Nigeria. Even the governor of Enugu state himself is running around begging to know if he will join APC, but we say, fa, fa, fa…foul! I’m telling all the Labour Party members, the person that asked me to come here is the National Chairman of APC, Dr. Umar Abdullahi Ganduje.
“He said I should tell Hon Cyriacus Umeha, Hon Dennis Oguerinwa Amadi, and all those that joined APC with them, including Hon Emma Ogbozo my friend, that you have made the right decision. You will not be disappointed.
“You see, that man that is governing Enugu now (Peter Mbah), he has ended his reign, I can tell you reliably that he has finished his one term; the way he came is the same way he will go. So you have taken the right decision because you have connected yourself to the national grid, light never goes off from the national grid. So you’re welcome to APC.
“We have a new governor in us, what he is doing is just waiting, he is waiting for 2027 to assume his position as the governor of Enugu State and we know his capacity; that is when people will enjoy good governance.
“The taxation they are using to kill the poor people will no longer be there, there will be considerable taxation and not taxing people to kill them.
“So, all the people that joined APC from the Labour Party are lucky people. I’m standing behind my leader, Hon Minister Uche Nnaji, who I’m following to the Government House legitimately, I don’t want to go illegitimately there and all of us will enter there in 2027 in Jesus name, Amen!”
In his speech, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Nnaji  commended the defectors for joining the APC, expressing disappointment that Enugu State government recently invited “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to come and commission uncompleted projects in the state.
“I know that our people are suffering, the huge allocation that accrues to the state is not being used to work for the people. What they do is make belief; they go to newspapers and electronic media and are advertising what they did not do and claiming they have done it..."
Also, the state Chairman of the party, Barr Ugochukwu Agballah, said the defection of Umeha and collapse of LP structure in Udi and Ezeagu local government area would have a profound effect in Enugu State politics, notiing tthat Udi/Ezeagu, otherwise known as Agbaja people are the heartbeat of Wawa people (people of old Enugu state including present day Ebonyi), while Enugu state is the heartbeat of South East.
He blamed the crisis in Labour Party to the failure of leadership at the national level by its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi and similarly the failure of leadership by the governorship candidate of the party in Enugu state, Barr Chijioke Edeoga, who he said, abandoned the party to defect to PDP that robbed him of his mandate.
According to him, Umeha had demonstrated courage and leadership and with Hon Dennis Amadi, his predecessor in the House of Reps who was also the Enugu West senatorial candidate of LP in 2023, now joining forces with the APC, the entire Enugu West had been garrisoned against other parties ahead of 2027 general elections.