The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has faulted claims by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State, Dr. Sampson Uche Ogah, that the SDP had entered into alliance with the APC, ahead of 2019 general elections.
Ogah had after meeting behind closed-door with President Muhammad Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja, told State House correspondents that All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and SDP were set to join forces with the APC to unseat the Peoples’ Democratic Party-led government in the State next year.
But the SDP chairman in Abia State, Hon. Chidi Nwosu, is reported to have disowned Ogah, saying: “There was no time SDP had a discussion with the APC at any level, from ward to state levels. I presume that Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah is hallucinating. He wants to reap what he did not sow. He knows the viability of SDP in Abia.
“We have candidates in all elective positions. I wonder where his perspective is coming from. SDP is not into alliance with APC.
“So, I don’t know where that assumption is from. It is unfortunate that such statement is coming from the person flying the ticket of APC. And I don’t think that governance at this point could generate into falsehood.
“Uche Ogah should try as much as possible to convince the electorate to vote for him, and not to bring SDP into conflict with the people. Because Abians are embracing SDP.”
“Ogah should retract that statement, because SDP is not willing for now, to go into alliance with any political party in Abia.”