A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Osita Okechukwu, says years of trust deficit in Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) simulated defection of its members.......CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE>>>>>
Okechukwu, a former Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, said this in a statement he issued on Sunday in Enugu while reacting to the position of Senator Aminu Tambuwal that “no one with conscience will join the APC”.
He noted that Tambuwal cannot truly talk of conscience when he connived to wreck the PDP; “hence it is the trust deficit of his party’s leadership which simulates massive defectors from PDP to APC.”
Senator Tambuwal, former governor of Sokoto state, at the recent Northwest zonal meeting of the PDP, had expressed disappointment over the recent wave of defections by members of the PDP to the ruling APC.
Tambuwal was quoted as saying that, “I believe that no one with conscience will join the APC.
“People leave parties for different reasons, but what I have been observing in recent time are defections not based on the interest of the people but on stomach infrastructure.”
Okechukwu replying noted that the wave of the defections “is basically the outcome of erroneous breach of the rotation convention of President and Section 7 of the PDP’s Constitution of which Tambuwal was one of the masterminds.”
“One cannot fathom how my friend Sen. Tambuwal didn’t rate the breach of the rotation convention.
“Especially, against his erstwhile bosom friend Nyesom Wike, Minister of FCT; who backed him in 2018 presidential primary when no aspirant of southern extraction in the PDP contested in obedience to the rotation convention as unconscionable?
“This is the offshoot of Wike Masquerade raging,” the APC chieftain said.
He reminded Tambuwal and his cohorts that some patriotic members of the PDP are defecting because the party had been demobilised, irretrievably wreckage rendered and ineffective to play its traditional role of main opposition party.
On the impending coalition or merger which would likely dislodge the APC in 2027 presidential election, Okechukwu replied that the greed in the party would not allow them to forge solid merger.
He said they (PDP) had already started cooking up awkward permutation of South 17 and North 11 years in Aso Villa, just to rupture again the rotation convention, “as if Nigeria got independence in 1999.”
“Tambuwal and cohorts act as if they have 100 per cent votes of the North in their pockets and albeit the Northern electorates are quarantined in a dormitory to be hauled to the polling booth on Election day.
“Their masterminds always forget that the Northern electorates are one of the most sophisticated in the country and cannot be toyed with.
“Or do they think that the southeastern electorates that put all their eggs in one PDP’s electoral basket, even when APC presented Rt. Honourables Chuba Okadigbo and Edwin Umezoke in 2003 and 2007 as Vice Presidents respectively are amnesia stricken?
“The defection is not about stomach infrastructure, it is about PDP’s leadership trust deficit,” Okechukwu added.
