With less than twelve days to the country’s presidential election, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lost another chieftain to the major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Premium Times reported on Tuesday that a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba, has defected to the APC.
The former Speaker who reportedly dumped the PDP on Sunday is currently being received by the National Working Committee and other national leaders of the APC at its national secretariat in Abuja.
The defector revealed that he chose the APC because the PDP has refused to change its undemocratic ways of running the affairs of the party.
Na’abba recalled that he had left the PDP before in 2005 but returned after the late president Musa Yar’adua emerged as the number one citizen in 2007 and promised to change the order of things, but the pledge was not fulfilled.
“I believe the country needs change, particularly at the top. Nigeria has suffered serious misrule in the 16 years of PDP administration. The momentum everywhere now is with the APC and that is why I decided to join the APC in order to help grow the momentum,” he said.
Meanwhile, The Punch reports that Na’abba is expected to address a press conference very soon with the national leaders of the APC.
Defection has become a recurring feature of the political landscape in Nigeria, although the main parties’ constitutions state on defection that when a member joins another party, the member is expected to automatically lose any seat he/she won under the party, but so far, this rule has not been applied, a situation that has caused heated controversy among political leaders.
Two days ago in Kano state, Bashir Husain, a serving member of the House of Representatives, and Hajia Maryma Kofar Mata, the special assistant to Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso on the Empowerment Programme, also defected to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
Premium Times reported on Tuesday that a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba, has defected to the APC.
The former Speaker who reportedly dumped the PDP on Sunday is currently being received by the National Working Committee and other national leaders of the APC at its national secretariat in Abuja.
The defector revealed that he chose the APC because the PDP has refused to change its undemocratic ways of running the affairs of the party.
Na’abba recalled that he had left the PDP before in 2005 but returned after the late president Musa Yar’adua emerged as the number one citizen in 2007 and promised to change the order of things, but the pledge was not fulfilled.
“I believe the country needs change, particularly at the top. Nigeria has suffered serious misrule in the 16 years of PDP administration. The momentum everywhere now is with the APC and that is why I decided to join the APC in order to help grow the momentum,” he said.
Meanwhile, The Punch reports that Na’abba is expected to address a press conference very soon with the national leaders of the APC.
Defection has become a recurring feature of the political landscape in Nigeria, although the main parties’ constitutions state on defection that when a member joins another party, the member is expected to automatically lose any seat he/she won under the party, but so far, this rule has not been applied, a situation that has caused heated controversy among political leaders.
Two days ago in Kano state, Bashir Husain, a serving member of the House of Representatives, and Hajia Maryma Kofar Mata, the special assistant to Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso on the Empowerment Programme, also defected to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
