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Kolawole Adesina
1 month ago
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The ruling All Progressives Congress on Sunday lambasted former Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal for what it described as a condescending remark about defecting members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
Tambuwal, after the North-West zonal meeting of the PDP in Kaduna on Saturday, attributed the recent defections of PDP bigwigs to the APC to “stomach infrastructure” rather than genuine public interest.
But in a statement released in Abuja on Sunday, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, dismissed Tambuwal’s comments, calling him a “serial defector.”
“There remains profound wisdom in the saying that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. That wisdom has clearly eluded Tambuwal, a notorious and vainglorious party defector. Evidently, his comments more aptly characterised his own convoluted record of defections from the ANPP to the Democratic People’s Party in 2007 and back to ANPP.
“He then went off to the PDP, decamping in 2014 to APC and finally crawling back to PDP, ignominiously, in 2018. 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. 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
