THE All Progressives Congress, APC has shut its door to defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charging would be defectors to either form a constructive opposition or quit politics.
The PDP chieftains in their post mortem of the recent elections also urged aggrieved candidates of the party who lost out to seek judicial redress with the affirmation that the party would support them all the way.
The APC reacting to a communiqué of the meeting between the National Committee, NWC of the PDP and its elected governors and senators on Tuesday affirmed that the party was scared stiff of playing opposition.
Noting the continued interest of the leaders of the PDP to jump ship, the APC in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the party was not enthusiastic about receiving the PDP defectors.
“The truth of the matter is that the leadership of the PDP is not even waiting to be approached before fleeing to the APC, PDP leaders and members are falling over themselves shamelessly and swearing undying allegiance to the APC. Well, in case they did not get the message of the President-elect and our National Chairman, we want to repeat it in very blunt terms: PDP leaders and members, you are not welcome in APC. Please stay in your party but if – as we suspect – you cannot survive in opposition, then take a walk, quit politics,” the party said.
Affirming that the leaders of the PDP were afraid to stay in the opposition, he said:
“We don’t blame them as they have neither the capacity nor the commitment to be in opposition. A party that stood for nothing but looting and rent collection will naturally be afraid of being in opposition, where there is nothing to loot or rent to collect.”
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
