Dr. Stephen Mamza, the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, has urged the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, not to consider nominating defectors as ministers in the incoming administration.
The bishop stated that the members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who recently deserted to the APC would derail the government.
The cleric made the appeal during a lecture at St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Bekaji, Yola.
He stated that those politicians have shown the world that they are only after what they can get not what they can give to the people.
Mamza said: “My special advice to the President-elect is that he should not give appointment to anyone that is less than three years in APC. This will help him to build a government that is based on the APC agenda, but if he makes the mistake of mixing his government with the PDP members who are in APC for appointments he would disappoint those that elected him.
“If these PDP members that are running to APC are principled people, and they love democracy, they will remain in PDP and rebrand the party for the next elections. But rushing to APC confirmed that they are only in politics for their selfish interest and not for the development of the country.
“I respect those PDP members that are still in PDP, they are the true democrat of this country”, he noted.
The cleric added that the action of the PDP traitors proved that they deceived their former party during the concluded general polls which the party lost to the APC.
Mamza warned the president-elect against giving nominations to any of the PDP members that defected to the APC, saying that PDP members joining APC pose a serious threat to the government of Buhari and that they are not coming to help develop Buhari’s government, but to sink the party in the same way they sunk President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
Meanwhile, Buhari has submitted to the security agencies for screening 40 names being considered for ministerial nominations.
The listed names were mostly former PDP members who had defected to the APC, leading people to question where the change is.
The bishop stated that the members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who recently deserted to the APC would derail the government.
The cleric made the appeal during a lecture at St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Bekaji, Yola.
He stated that those politicians have shown the world that they are only after what they can get not what they can give to the people.
Mamza said: “My special advice to the President-elect is that he should not give appointment to anyone that is less than three years in APC. This will help him to build a government that is based on the APC agenda, but if he makes the mistake of mixing his government with the PDP members who are in APC for appointments he would disappoint those that elected him.
“If these PDP members that are running to APC are principled people, and they love democracy, they will remain in PDP and rebrand the party for the next elections. But rushing to APC confirmed that they are only in politics for their selfish interest and not for the development of the country.
“I respect those PDP members that are still in PDP, they are the true democrat of this country”, he noted.
The cleric added that the action of the PDP traitors proved that they deceived their former party during the concluded general polls which the party lost to the APC.
Mamza warned the president-elect against giving nominations to any of the PDP members that defected to the APC, saying that PDP members joining APC pose a serious threat to the government of Buhari and that they are not coming to help develop Buhari’s government, but to sink the party in the same way they sunk President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
Meanwhile, Buhari has submitted to the security agencies for screening 40 names being considered for ministerial nominations.
The listed names were mostly former PDP members who had defected to the APC, leading people to question where the change is.
