South-South zonal PDP Auditor quits, teams up with APC Reps candidate

Mr. Patrick Egbede

The South-South zonal auditor of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Patrick Egbede has quit the party.

Egbede, who is from Cross River State, had announced his resignation from the party in a letter dated 25th October 2018 to the zonal National Vice Chairman of the party.

In the three-paragraph letter, he said: "I wish to inform you of my decision to formally resign from the People's Democratic Party. I had joined the party and remained with the party since inception in 1998.

While in the letter he attributed his actions to some personal reasons, he however, in an interview attributed it in part to the ambition of the immediate past State Security Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade, Mr Jude Ngaji, to go to the National Assembly.

Ngaji, who is the All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives candidate for Ogoja-Yala Federal Constituency, has subsequently announced Egbede as the Deputy Director General of his campaign organisation.

Ngaji is running on a restoration agenda.