* To battle with Ikpeazu over Abia South senatorial seat
Barely two days after boycotting the Abia State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 governorship primaries over alleged irregularities, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has pitched his tent with the opposition All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
An Abia APGA chieftain (name withheld) revealed that Abaribe has already picked the APGA senatorial form and is set to contest the party’s primary election holding today, Friday, May 27, 2022.
Abaribe had suffered a double loss in PDP after being stopped from returning to the Senate by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, who has since picked the PDP ticket, while also being zoned out of the 2023 Abia governorship race to pave the way for the emergence of Ikpeazu’s crony, Prof. Uche Ikonne.
Ikpeazu and Abaribe
With Abaribe likely to grab the APGA senatorial ticket for Abia South, the battle-line has become drawn between him and Ikpeazu, his Ngwa brother from the same community.
“They will now have to test their popularity during the next senatorial election,” the source who revealed Abaribe’s defection to APGA reportedly said.