Fresh facts have emerged on why Enugu State governor, Mr. Peter Mbah, might soon dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

As gathered from sources within the PDP, one of the main reasons is the failure of the PDP to ratify Sunday Udeh-Okoye as South East’s choice to complete the remaining tenure of Senator Samuel Anyanwu as National Secretary of the party.

The development was said to have pitted the party against its South East caucuses.

In a communiqué issued after the South East Zonal Executive Committee (ZEC) meeting at Government House, Enugu, on May 14, 2025, the South East PDP warned that it was fed up and might leave the party if the party failed to ratify Udeh-Okoye as the National Secretary for the umpteenth time.

“In the event that our position is not promptly implemented by the party, the South East PDP, as a family, will be compelled to reconsider our relationship with the PDP going forward,” the communiqué read by the South East Zonal Chairman of the party, Chief Ali Odefa stated.

On the occasion, former Senate President and Chairman of PDP Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, decried the treatment meted out to the South East PDP despite the region’s loyalty to the party since its formation in 1998.

“We have been trampled upon, not taken seriously. If such a position were vacant in the South-South, it would not be like this. And now, it came to us and the usual thing is to play politics with the Igbo man. Yes, we may have to reconsider our stand as far as the party is concerned. But I trust the NWC.” The second reason that could make Mbah dump PDP, it was gathered, is the endless crisis in the PDP, which has also been identified as major factor fuelling defections from the party, including the rumoured possible defection of Mbah.

While reiterating the possibility of South East and himself dumping the party during Governor Seyi Makinde’s intervention visit to Enugu on June 30, Mbah maintained that “we reserve the right to review our continued membership of the party if the party is unwilling to put its house in order.”

With the retention of Anyanwu, believed to be an ally of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, as National Secretary, the PDP has continued to writhe in pains of crisis, with many party faithful now afraid that PDP might not be able to field candidates in the 2027 election.

Within Anyanwu’s reinstatement, National Alliance for Democratic Governance (NADG), a civil society organization, predicted that Ambassador Umar Damagun would be the last chairman of the troubled party.

“The pages of history will remember the Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagun, as the man who presided over PDP’s final funeral,” the CSO said on July 3.

The crisis has also continued, as both Anyanwu and Damagun have been writing counter letters to INEC.

The source noted however, that though Mbah’s defection might happen, it is not as imminent as it is being presented. (Saturday Sun, but headline rejigged)