PDP Expels Abia Lawmaker For Supporting Gov Otti’s ‘Good Works’

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expelled Honourable Rowland Chinwendu Dennis, the lawmaker representing Isialangwa South State Constituency within the Abia State Home of Meeting, over alleged anti-party actions.

Dennis, in a letter seen by THE WHISTLER and addressed to the Speaker of the Abia State Home of Meeting, confirmed his expulsion and introduced his defection to the Labour Party.

Within the letter dated February 25, 2025, the lawmaker acknowledged that his help for the insurance policies and “good works” of Governor Alex Otti of the Labour Party was deemed unacceptable by the PDP management in his ward.

“My expulsion from the Individuals’s Democratic Party of my ward, Omoba ward 7, was communicated to me by a letter dated twenty fourth February 2025, and the choice has been ratified and affirmed by the Individuals’s Democratic Party on the Native Authorities stage,” Dennis wrote.

Citing inner crises inside the PDP at each the nationwide and state ranges, Dennis stated he had no selection however to hitch the Labour Party to contribute to the event of his constituency below Governor Otti’s management.

“I’m delighted to hitch the Labour Party as I’m totally conscious that the Labour Party as a political get together is constructed on the tenets of justice and honest play and that’s the reason it’s as we speak acknowledged as among the best political establishments in our democratic journey as a nation,” he added.

THE WHISTLER recollects that this isn’t the primary time an opposition get together could be expelling its members within the Abia meeting for supporting the Otti administration.

In Could, the Younger Progressives Party (YPP) expelled two lawmakers — Hon. Ahuama Fyne Onyekachi (Osisioma South) and Hon. Iheanacho Nwogu (Osisioma North) — for alleged remarks they made in help of Otti’s administration.

THE WHISTLER reported that Onyekachi was accused of constructing pro-Otti statements and was given a possibility to defend himself earlier than a panel arrange by YPP.

Nonetheless, his response was deemed unsatisfactory by his ward executives, resulting in his expulsion. The YPP executives on the native and nationwide ranges later endorsed the choice.

With the event, the political dynamics within the Abia could proceed to shift in favour of the Labour Party forward of the 2027 common elections.

The PDP, which dominated Abia for twenty-four years earlier than struggling big defeat in the course of the 2023 common election, has been hit by a gale of high-profile defections after it misplaced energy.

Amongst heavyweights who’ve dumped the PDP because the 2023 common election embody the get together’s former chairman, Senator Emma Nwaka; rapid previous Speaker of the Abia meeting, Hon. Chinedum Orji, and Chris Nkwonta, the lawmaker representing Ukwa East/Ukwa West Federal Constituency of Abia within the Home of Representatives.

The most recent defection now leaves the PDP with 11 lawmakers within the 24-member state meeting.