Wife of the former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Amadu Ali, on Thursday, swelled the ranks of defectors to the All Progressives Congress, (APC).
Mrs Marian Ali, the former senatorial candidate of the PDP Delta North stormed the APC national secretariat along with her supporters and chieftains of the APC in Delta State. They were received by the party national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
Addressing members of the party national working committee, Mrs Ali premised her action on the desire to serve the people of Delta State.
She said: “A lot of persons may wonder why l is joining the All Progressives Congress (APC), the answer is very simple I want to continue to render service to my people and Nigeria at large. I will be doing myself a lot disservice if l doesn’t fulfill this burning desire in me.”
Oyegun expressed satisfaction over her action and expressed the hope that she would be an asset to APC in Delta State.
“l am glad now that this day has come that you are joining APC because of your determination to render service to your people and the nation, which means that you have looked around, you have looked at your environment in the PDP and you have decided consciously after deep thought that the best vehicle available today on which platform you can render that service is the APC and l want to congratulate you.”
“It is very clear from the spread, the quality and from the beauty of those who are here today that this is indeed a major event. l have heard the news that today was going to happen and l was praying that there should be no change because this is one of those (Mrs Ali), that gave us trouble and she gave PDP some levels of trouble and they too troubled her.”
“l Congratulate you because you are not somebody who is flippant or somebody who is frivolous but somebody who comes from a very serious family background.
“Yes, your husband was the longest serving National chairman of the PDP and it is not as it is a very long ago, it is a very recent past yet you downplayed the impact of what you are doing on the family and the rest of the people but l cannot believe that this is something that was discussed; this is something that was argued and this is an argument in which you prevailed and l have a strong feeling that those arguments will still be in peoples mind; it will keep recurring to them as events unfold in the next few weeks, in the next few months and in the next few years. But it is my hope that what you have started would turn into a family thing.
“I welcome you especially because you are adding to the quality of membership in Delta State. You are also adding to the quality of leadership in the APC family in the whole nation and my prayer, my hope is that you are bringing added value to the APC. The quality that would propel us not just a victory in Delta State but us in Nigeria.
‘’People who you don’t even know will start saying that if Mrs Ali can do this then there must be something very good about joining the APC.
In his remarks, Delta State APC Chairman, Prophet Jones True said Mrs Ali would add value to the party in the state. “We came here with one of the most powerful women of Delta State. This woman is joining our party formally. Dr (Mrs) Ali is here to declare for APC and she would work for APC come 2019.”
