Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has declared for the All Progressive Alliance (APGA) today. According to Abia TV and Radio stations, the Governor decamped to APGA as a “necessary step for Abia”. This follows several months of frosty relationship between Orji and his former party, the PPA led by the governors predescesor in Umuahia, Orji Uzor Kalu. Governor Orji had earlier expressed the intention to contest for second term in office,

but did not specify the political party under which he would achieve his ambition as there has been  intra-party crisis in PPA.
It will be recalled that Orji had fired all his commissioners on Monday the 28th of June, retaining only the commissioner for works, who happens to be his cousin and the Attorney General and commissioner for justice from Ohafia.

Only three other officials were left functioning in Abia at the moment: the secretary to the government who help made the announcement on the dissolution of the cabinet, the cheif of staff to deputy governor -Mr Ogbonna, and the Commissioner of Lands.

People are now waiting of what is to become of House of Assembly that is predominantly PPA. It was gathered that Governor Orji met with the APGA national chairman, Chef Victor Umeh and Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu in Enugu last week, to prepare his eventual move to the APGA for the second term ambition.

his is the second time Governor Orji is dissolving the cabinet since he became the chief executive.