Senator Aliyu Wadada, representing Nasarawa West, has left the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Wadada was spotted at the presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday, where he met with President Bola Tinubu to inform him of the decision.
The lawmaker, who won his seat on the platform of the SDP, is said to be nursing a governorship ambition in Nasarawa.
Speaking on his defection, Wadada said his earlier exit from the APC for the SDP was “just circumstantial”.
His words: “It was just circumstantial and I wouldn’t want to bore anybody about circumstances that led to my departure from APC, because it came, and it’s now gone.
“I went out there, saw, and have done it and that’s why today I am in the senate on the platform of SDP. But there is no hiding the fact that, and I had said this earlier, that SDP as a political party hasn’t offended me.
“I am still proud of SDP, but the happenings now may not warrant my continuous stay in SDP, and so I am on my way. I could even say that I am APC.
“I am APC, and not because SDP has offended me, just like the same way I moved from APC to SDP. Dynamism of life makes it imperative for everything in life to be dynamic.”
Wadada also dismissed the opposition’s ability to outperform Tinubu’s government, saying, “I haven’t seen any”.
He declared support for Tinubu’s re-election bid, saying “there is no vacancy in Aso Rock” until 2031.
This is the same reason you Nigerian politicians are giving at any given time you people want to change for any of your selfish interest. No wonder if you can get to meet the President that’d opposed at the last general election.
It’s today you coming to realize that you belong back to APC because you acchieved been a member House of Senate.
We Nigerians are too clever, that is why I love Nigerian politicians and policy.