APC stalwart says Tambuwal Can’t Talk About Concience after destroying PDP

By Tom Okpe

A stalwart of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Osita Okechukwu has said former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, cannot truly talk of conscience, when he connived to wreck the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

Recall that Senator Tambuwal, the former Governor of Sokoto State, at the North West Zonal meeting of the PDP, had expressed disappointment over the recent wave of defections by members of the PDP, to the APC, where he said: “I believe that no one with conscience will join the APC. People leave parties for different reasons, but what I have been observing in recent times are defections, not based on interest of the people, but on stomach infrastructure.”

But, reacting to this assertion on Sunday, while speaking with journalists in Abuja, the former Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, VoN and foundation member of the ruling Party said: “Tambuwal cannot truly talk of conscience when he connived to wreck the PDP; hence it is the trust deficit of his Party’s leadership which simulates defectors.”

Okechukwu further noted that the wave of defections are basically, outcome of erroneous breach of rotation convention, and Section 7 of the PDP’s Constitution, which Tambuwal was one of the masterminds.

“One cannot fathom how my friend, Senator Tambuwal did not rate breach of the rotation convention, especially against his erstwhile bosom friend, Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT; who backed him in 2018 Presidential primary election, when no aspirant of southern extraction in the PDP contested in obedience to the rotation convention as unconscionable. This is the offshoot of Wike’s Masquerade raging,” he stated.

He reminded Tambuwal and his co drivers’ that some patriotic members of the PDP are defecting because the party has been demobilised, irretrievably wrecked, rendered and ineffective to play its traditional role of main opposition party.

When told of the impending coalition or merger which will dislodge the APC in 2027 Presidential election, Okechukwu retorted that the greed in the Party will not allow them, forge solid merger saying; “they have already, started cooking up awkward permutation of south 17 and north 11 years in Aso Villa, just to rupture again, the rotation convention, as if Nigeria got independence in 1999.

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“Tambuwal and cohorts act as if they have 100% votes of the north in their pocket and albeit the northern electorates are quarantined in a dormitory to be hauled to the polling booth on Election Day.

“Their masterminds always forget that the northern electorates are one of the most sophisticated, in the country and cannot be toyed with.

“Or do they think that the southeastern electorates that put all their eggs in one PDP’s electoral basket, even when APC presented late Chuba Okadigbo and Edwin Umezioke in 2003 and 2007 as Vice Presidents respectively are amnesia stricken,” he queried.

“The defection is not about stomach infrastructure, it’s about PDP’s leadership, trust deficit,” he added.