…asks civil society to start mobilising to ensure Nwoko is recalled
The AUF has slammed Senator Ned Nwoko over his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP asking him to resign his senate seat for betraying the mandate given him.
The group in a statement on Saturday, February 1, 2025 said that Nwoko has smeared the people of Delta North by dumping the PDP and identifying himself with a party that is known for the hardship it has brought to Nigerians.
The statement followed the recent letter by Nwoko to his ward chairman signifying his defection from the PDP. He had cited the crisis in the PDP as his reason for leaving the party.
However, countering him, the AUF in a statement issued by its spokesman, Mani Onye and made available to newsmen at the weekend said:
“We are shocked that Senator Ned Nwoko after riding on the popularity of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the Senate office he had for long desired. We are more shocked that Nwoko with his seeming defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC is giving our constituency a badge that is strange to us.
“Delta North prides itself as a no-go area for the APC and that is why the party has never been known to make any inroad into our constituency since it was founded. We are as such shocked that Nwoko would go to the Senate and identify himself and our constitutency with that party.
“We call on him to toe the honourable path of resigning and seeking a fresh mandate, which he cannot get.”
The AUF as such called on the PDP and all other civic society groups in the area to mobilise to retrieve the mandate from Senator Nwoko.