The President of Ijaw National Congress, Prof. Okaba Benjamin, on Thursday said there is no wrong if the suspended Governor of Rivers State, Sim Fubara, decides to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Benjamin said Nigerians no longer consider defection as a big deal because President Bola Tinubu may decide to join PDP if he sees the party as a veritable platform.
Benjamin’s remark comes amid permutations that Fubara is planning to dump the PDP for APC.
This followed Fubara’s recent visit to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, to seek reconciliation with two APC governors.
Fubara, who was suspended for six months over the political crisis in Rivers State, met with Tinubu for the second time a few days back.
However, Benjamin said Nigeria has no political parties but platforms for transmission.
Featuring on Channels Television’s Morning Brief, Benjamin said: “If a former Vice presidential candidate defects, what’s wrong about Fubara defecting to APC? There is nothing wrong about that.
“We don’t have political parties, we have platforms put together for people to transmit from one position to the other.
“So, if we have state governors, former Vice presidential candidates of parties just moving on, to the extent that one of the governors said if you don’t move with me, I will sack you, so there are no ideological differences and all that.
“I had a conversation with a former state party chairman and I asked him, you have moved from PDP to this, and he said yes, I now asked him what is the first item in schedule this of your party, and he said he doesn’t know.
“What I’m trying to say is this, Fubara said he will do anything for peace in Rivers State, but Nigerians don’t see it as anything about him defecting. Even tomorrow, Tinubu may decide to defect to APC because he finds the party as a veritable platform.”
