Imo PDP In Shock As Ogubundu Dumps Party, Joins APC, Visits Uzodinma

By Charles Igbo

For the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State, it was like a bad dream, a nightmare. In deed, it was, and worse.

Nobody had an inkling of the coming bomb. Except the guy. He played it close to his chest. Very close.

Until September 14 when he delivered his letter of resignation from the Imo PDP, he was of  the Party’s faces. He was a hardliner against the  Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, and his Government. His pen was very lethal. And he is a prolific writer. Nothing the Governor did or said was good. The good are negatively twisted. And the bad grossly exaggerated.

But on September 14, all that came crashing. It was like war.

Ogubundu Nwadike, the Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Imo, quit from both office and party. He not only did, he decamped to the ruling APC. And to rub it in, same day, he was at the APC Secretariat sitting down and gisting with them.

The cut couldn’t be deeper than that.

In a terse letter titled Resignation As State Publicity Secretary addressed to the Chairman Peoples Democratic Party, Imo State, and signed by himself, Ogubundu wrote:

“The above-stated subject refers. This is to formally inform you of my decision to resign from my position as the State Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State. My Resignation takes effect from the date of this letter.

“The decision to resign is purely on personal reasons, after due considerations and consultations with my family and mentors. My resignation is in good faith as I confirm that there is no altercation of any sort between me and the Party.

“I thank the PDP for giving me the opportunity to serve the Party. Thank you Sir.”

Ogubundu’s resignation has, at once, been greeted with disbelief and shock and outrage within the PDP circle.

He is the second bitter critic of Uzodinma’s Government to quit the opposition and join him. First, it was Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, the former Head of the Imo PDP New Media. When he quit, and joined Uzodinma, he was attacked by his former compatriots to hell and back. Ogubundu is likely to face same attacks.

In deed, not a few people alleged that Nwaogwugwu’s mother who was cruelly and brutally matcheted to death paid the price for his son’s political activities.

In the case of Ogubundu now, many people are asking the PDP to look inwards. Is the Party over-doing things? Is their method of opposition becoming suffocating and is it putting a number of their members off? Is it time for them to commend when they should, and condemn when they should? Is it time to stop giving the impression that, especially, the insecurity in the state should be celebrated instead of roundly condemned? Is it time for them to stop seeing it as a PDP Vs.APC fight? Is it time to stop seeing it as “A personal fight against Uzodinma”? Is it time to put the State and the people first and embark on constructive criticism? Or are the resignations for stomach infrastructure as many in the PDP are alleging?

Time will tell, as there are rumors that more shocking resignations are in the offing.