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Ahead of Tuesday when top leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) meet to look at their final list of candidates for the 2019 elections with a view to using the last window for substitution, President Muhammadu Buhari has moved to avert possible defections from the party arising from the crisis generated by the primaries.
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IN the last one month, Nigerians have witnessed the movement or abandonment by politicians of one political party for another. The reasons they give have ranged from impunity, inadequate reward, harassment and undemocratic impositions by their former political parties who now perceive them as political enemies.
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ANYTIME I get to read about how our politicians engage in carpet-crossing from one party to another, I feel greatly troubled and unhappy for two reasons. First, it shows the level of indiscipline in the polity. Secondly, it gives one the impression that our journey to the enthronement of good governance and sustainable development is becoming a mirage. Perhaps, more than ever before in the annals of the country, the last few weeks have witnessed a litany of defections from one party to another that makes it difficult for one to sit down and adduce any sound justification for such actions.
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Prelate/Moderator of General Assembly of Presbyterian Church of Nigeria has said the rate of political defections may lead the country into the state of anarchy.
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FIFTEEN presidential aspirants, representing what they termed the new breed of politicians, have flayed the recent wave of defections by prominent politicians, describing it as an attempt by political establishment to neutralise the change Nigerians desire in 2019.
Read More A youth group, Ethnic Nationalities Youth Presidents of Nigeria, ENYPN, has cautioned the Presidency and National Assembly members against heating the polity over defection of Senate President, Dr. Olusola Saraki and Some Governors from the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, and warned them against truncating the nation’s democracy.
Read More They are fighting for their pockets and only God will deliver us from their hands. It is obvious that they want to satisfy themselves. It is not in the interest of Nigerians. From what we are seeing, it is obvious that the politicians are in business. I even learned that a former governor, who is a senator has concluded plans to defect. They are shameless people.
Read More The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been gripped by a fever of cross-carpeting. Publicly, the party is saying it will not lose sleep. The most dramatic statement yet was by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, that providence is removing stones from the party’s rice, the same rice they have been eating for three years now.
Read More A university lecturer, Dr Olakunle Lawal, has described the massive defection between political parties by Nigerian politicians as indication of low political development.
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Whereas some of the defectors are said to be battle ready with their governors in the 2019 elections, a few of them are believed to be interested in the presidency. In essence, those in the latter category are keen to contesting next year’s presidential election with President Muhammadu Buhari who is seeking re-election.
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