By Anayo Okoli

Umuahia— Governor  Theodore Orji of Abia State has joined the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.

This comes as the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, in Abia State has hailed his resignation from the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA.

Special Adviser to the Governor on Print Media, Mr. Joshua Ogbonna, who made the announcement in Umuahia while briefing newsmen on the political future of the Governor yesterday, said Orji had lost confidence in the PPA which brought him to power.

“I have the mandate of Governor Theodore Orji to inform you that he has joined APGA because the party has shown that it is disciplined and focused than the rest of the parties in the country,” he said.

Ogbonna added that APGA was more progressive, hence Orji’s decision to join the party.

He said that Orji decided to leave PPA due to the activities of its National Chairman, Larry Esin, who, he said, had shown that he was not conversant with the happenings in the state and had summoned the governor to explain an issue that the party was “not even sure of.”

Ogbonna said chieftains of APGA, including Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and the two factional chairmen of the party at the national level would be in the state on Friday to formally welcome the governor to the party.

Mr Emeka Nwachukwu, APGA state Chairman, said that the party was a better political platform for the governor to realise his ambition of moving the state forward.

“The Governor’s ideologies fall within the ambits of what APGA represents,” he added.

Nwachukwu said in an  interview that the governor, by his action of dumping the crisis-ridden PPA, had made himself a political bride who was sought after by political parties.