The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has responded to former Sokoto State Governor, Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, following his remarks about politicians defecting to the party.
Over the weekend, Tambuwal, who represents Sokoto South in the Senate, claimed that those leaving opposition parties for the APC were doing so purely for “stomach infrastructure” reasons.
His party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been hit by a wave of defections to the APC ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Reacting to Tambuwal’s comments, APC National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix Morka, dismissed him as a “notorious and vainglorious party defector.”
The APC further stated, “Evidently, his comments more aptly characterised his own convoluted record of defections from the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) in 2007 and back to ANPP and then off to the PDP, and decamping in 2014 to APC and finally crawling back to PDP, ignominiously, in 2018.”
The party accused Tambuwal of being driven by personal gains rather than principles, stating, “By his assertions, Tambuwal’s itinerant defections were in chase of ‘stomach infrastructure,’ purely self-serving and without any conscience. A wandering politician like Tambuwal lacks the moral turpitude to comment on the intentions of politicians who have defected from a crisis-ridden PDP to our great Party.”
Defending the recent wave of defections, the APC argued that many PDP members were joining the ruling party because of President Bola Tinubu’s leadership, saying, “Contrary to Tambuwal’s jibe, members of the PDP are joining APC, ostensibly, to identify with President Bola Tinubu’s bold economic reform agenda in the face of growing and undeniable positive indications of a resurgent Nigeria. Many of the defectors have offered this as the raison d’etre for their defection, quite apart from the fact that the PDP is in a state of bedlam, and is now an unrecognizable shadow of its old self.”
