Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has said that the gale of defections recorded recently is owing to the fact that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is getting weaker under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
Sule, who appeared on Politics Today, a Channels TV show monitored by POLITICS NIGERIA, was reacting to the defection of some PDP lawmakers and Governors to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
This, he attributed to the weak state of the opposition party, saying that the situation is getting worse. According to Governor Sule, the APC’s depletion of PDP by poaching its governors and lawmakers is a part of politicking.
“We have been a very strong party and we are doing the best we can to continue to be stronger and the only way we can be stronger is to get more and more people and the right people to get are the leaders of the opposition. That’s what we are trying to do and God so kind we are doing that,” the governor stated.
Governor Sule further said “PDP has always been weak since President Muhammadu Buhari came in,” adding that all that is being seen at the moment is that the party is becoming “weaker and weaker”.
He boasted that the APC is doing a very good job by ensuring that it opens its doors and give Nigerians what they are looking for when it comes to governance. Sule’s comments come on the heels of the latest defection of Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State.
Matawalle, late Tuesday, announced his defection at the Gusau Trade Fair Complex at an event attended by APC governors, ministers and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.
Meanwhile, the state’s deputy governor, Mahdi Aliyu, and the member representing Talata Mafara/Anka in the State House of Assembly, Kabiru Yahaya, have decided to remain in the opposition PDP. Some federal lawmakers from the state who are also members of the PDP had earlier announced their defection to the APC but it is not yet clear whether all the lawmakers joined the governor to the APC.
Why should it be so?. Does the president deserve commendation for weakening the opposition? Live and let live in the spirit of tolerance, kindness, and accomodation is one of the golden rules that make for a harmonious coexistence. If the PDP while in power had run government in this manner, would he have risen to that lofty position he’s occupying today? The very critical question is; Do we really have a democratic govt? ’cause without vibrant opposition, there is no democracy. Let him refrain from whatever tactics he is devising to stiffle the opposition; bogus promises, truce, threats, or intimidation and let it be. One party govt cannot thrive in Nigeria because Nigerians are not good at praise singing. Has he not observed that within his APC. there are dissident voices?