Deputy national chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), South, Senator Ugochukwu Uba has stated that the party would deliver the country from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)’s bad governance.
Uba who represented Anambra South senatorial district of Anambra State in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly between 2003 and 2007 spoke to LEADERSHIP exclusively over the weekend.
A former director-general and commissioner at different times in Anambra State, including during the SDP administration of the first civilian governor of the state, the late Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, the erudite scholar of political science and former senior lecturer at the University of Abuja, condemned what he described as President Bola Tinubu and his party, APC, plotting to turn the country into a one-party state.
“We, in SDP are committed to salvaging this country from the hardship the people have been passing through, and, the disastrous political direction the APC government is taking the country to”, he stated.
Uba said that he would soon embark on tour of the three geo-political zones in the South including the South East, South West and South South to mobilise and sensitise eminent Nigerians in the area to join SDP so that the party would take over the federal government come 2027 general election.
Uba, who also formerly served the nation as a member of the Centre for Democratic Studies (CDS), with the late Professor Omo Omoruyi as the director-general during the military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida regime, insisted that Nigeria has an abundance of capable and patriotic leaders who could provide the needed governance to the country.
“You know me, you know my political antecedents, I have decided to embark on this assignment to go round the geo-political zones in the South to sensitise and mobilise like-minded to come into the SDP ahead of the 2027 general election so that we can salvage this country”, Uba stated.
According to a document sighted by LEADERSHIP, Uba was appointed deputy national chairman of the SDP (South ) along with two other key national officers of the party, including Dr. Sadiq Umar Abubakar, an acclaimed statistician and scholar of International Affair and Diplomacy and pioneer national secretary of SDP between 2010-2015 as deputy national chairman (North), and, Mr. Hussain Ado Bello from Kano State in the North West geo-political zone as national financial secretary at the party’s NWC meeting presided by the national chairman, Alh. Shehu Musa Gabam.
The NWC according to the document was mandated by the National Convention to fill vacant positions in the party ‘s national leadership with “eminent Nigerian patriots and capable personalities to add value to, and strengthen the party” ahead of the 2027 election.
