By Inalegwu Shaibu

ABUJA— SENATOR Alphonsus Igbeke, who barely three months ago took over the Anambra North Senatorial seat from Senator Joy Emodi on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, has decamped to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

Senator Igbeke who decamped to the PDP in absentia yesterday was joined by Senator Uche Chukwumerije, the lone Senator on the platform of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, to join the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA.

Igbeke who has not registered any contributions on the floor of the Senate, in a letter to the Senate President to announce his decamping, said it was based on the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as President and Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as the National Chairman of the PDP.

He added that his return to the PDP was home coming, as the self acclaimed state financier of the PDP, left the PDP for ANPP in the first instance because he was denied the chance to contest on 2007.

He said: “I have invested so much money in financing the party but had only left for the ANPP to get a platform where I would exercise my fundamental human right and fulfil my dreams of becoming a senator.”

But the news of Igbeke’s decamping did not generate any enthusiasm among the PDP Senators who were at the plenary session unlike the previous decamping that were normally characterised by lot of shouts and jubilations.

Chukwumerije failed to enjoy any warm reception being that he is yet again the only Senator on the platform of APGA, in the sixth National Assembly.