The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Sunday said that former Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, lacked the moral right to challenge politicians who had defected to the ruling party.
Media Talk Africa reports that, of late, politicians—especially from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party—have been defecting to the ruling party. This development prompted Tambuwal to state that no politician with a conscience would join APC, except those driven by “stomach infrastructure.”
However, in a statement issued on Sunday, the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Felix Morka, argued that such a statement should not have come from Tambuwal, whom he described as a renowned serial defector.
Morka noted: “There is profound wisdom in the saying that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. That wisdom has clearly eluded Tambuwal, a notorious and vainglorious party defector.
“His comments more aptly describe his own convoluted record of defections—from the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) in 2007, then back to the ANPP, before moving to the PDP, defecting in 2014 to the APC, and finally crawling back to the PDP, ignominiously, in 2018.
“By his own assertions, Tambuwal’s frequent defections were in pursuit of ‘stomach infrastructure’—purely self-serving and devoid of conscience.”
The APC spokesperson stressed that, contrary to Tambuwal’s claims, members of PDP were joining APC to align themselves with President Bola Tinubu’s bold economic reform agenda, amid growing and undeniable signs of a resurgent Nigeria.
