Again, Magnus Abe Defects To APC, Dumps SDP

By Adesina Soyooye

For the umpteenth time, Senator Magnus Abe of Rivers State, is dumping another Political Party and defecting to another. The Senator has gone back and forth major Political Parties since 1999.

He began with the Action for Democracy, AD, defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. While in the Party, he was appointed a Commissioner under the Governor Peter Odili Government, and the Secretary to the State Government under the Rotimi Amaechi Government.

He later contested, and won a Senatorial seat. When Amaechi dumped the PDP for the APC, Abe was one of his loyalists who followed him.

But mid-way, he fell out with Amaechi over his ambition to succeed him  in office as Governor. Thereafter, he dumped the APC, and began moonlighting in mushroom parties from where he contested for the Governorship seat. He made no headway.

In the February, 25, 2023 Governorship election, Abe was the Governorship Candidate of the Social Democratic Party, even though he remained a very strong ally of then Candidate Bola Tinubu.

However, speaking on Channels Television on January 2, 2024, Abe announced that he is headed back to the APC.

“Politically, I am headed back to APC”, he said.

Not a few people think Abe’s decision to head back to the APC is the best for him if he is to remain politically relevant. With his ally, Tinubu, as President, and his estranged former boss, Amaechi, reduced to a nobody in the APC, Abe’s decision to head back to APC is smart, they said.