Junaid Mohammed, Second Republic
lawmaker on Thursday reacted to the defection of the Senate President, Bukola
Saraki and other politicians from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
A few days ago, the Senate
President had officially dumped the ruling APC for PDP.
However, Mohammed while speaking
with Dailypost, insisted that the departure of Saraki and others will weaken
the structure of the ruling party ahead of 2019.
Mohammed, a Northern elder who is
a staunch critic of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration observed that
the defection of Saraki and other politicians will “harm” the APC as time goes
on.
The former lawmaker also
lambasted both the APC and PDP, saying both parties lacked ideology.
According to Mohammed, “In
politics, anybody or group of people who come into a party makes it stronger
while those who leave makes it weaker. The departure of Saraki and all those
who left will harm APC as a party.
“In any case, I must submit that
Saraki did not come to APC out of conviction and most of the people now
defecting came for purely personal aggrandizement and agenda. They never came
into the party because they believed in it.
“I also must submit that APC,
like PDP does not have any ideology, any core belief, they do not have any
belief other than taking power just to get money out of it. So whatever anyone
will say about his departure or that of others is their own imagination.
“One thing I know is that this
party system of era of errand boys where politicians move from one party to the
other is not good for political stability, security and the party system and if
the party system is not stable in a democracy, it means the country itself is
not stable and cannot move forward.”
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