Senator Ifeanyi Uba says he decided to dump the Young Progressives Party (YPP) and defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) because he wants the South-East to align with the Central Government of President Bola Tinubu.

It is been understood that that Ifeanyi Ubah said this when he visited the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, in the company of Senate President, Godswill Akpabio at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.

He said he has made my complaints to President Tinubu in front of the Senate President and he has graciously given me his words that he will support me.

“ I want to be sincere; it has always been difficult for the Igbo people to key into the national party because of our sentiments and emotions.

“Our president is a politician who understands how it pains and how to console everybody. He has that capacity,” he said.

Ganduje, while receiving Ubah, said he was the biggest politician that had joined the party since he assumed office as the APC chairman.

“This is the biggest fish I have gotten,” Ganduje said.

He expressed optimism that with Ubah’s defection, the party would soon take over the South-East in the coming elections.