Why I dumped APC, reveals Uduaghan as former Governor returns to PDP

Uduaghan was Delta governor for 8 years under PDP

Former Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uguaghan has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, barely 1 year after he decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Punch reports that Uduaghan re-joined the PDP at his Unit 1, Ward 6, at Abigborodo, his country home, and was accompanied to the venue by thousands of his supporters amid cheering solidarity songs on Monday.

The return to PDP is coming barely one year after he took a critical decision to join APC on 29 August 2019, in protest of his alleged maltreatment in PDP.

Uduaghan, who was Delta State Governor for eight years in the build-up to the 2019 elections defected to the APC where he contested and lost the Delta South Senatorial seat in 2019 to incumbent Senator James Manager.

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There have been insinuations that the former governor is planning a comeback to the PDP in a bid to boost his chances in 2023 as PDP now fully controlled the South-South region.

Uduaghan met with Governor Ifeanyi Okoya two weeks ago to fine-tune plans to return to PDP, his former base.

He also met with James Ibori, who was also a former governor in Delta State.