The All Progressives Congress (APC) has fired back at remarks made by former Sokoto Governor Aminu Tambuwal, who recently criticised the ruling party.
On Saturday, Tambuwal declared that no politician with a conscience would consider joining the APC, accusing those defecting to the party of being motivated by “stomach infrastructure.”
He also claimed that the current economic situation made membership in the APC less appealing. Tambuwal, who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives, made the comments after a meeting of the PDP National Executive Council (NEC) in Kaduna.
In a swift response on Sunday, APC spokesperson Felix Morka slammed Tambuwal as a “notorious and vainglorious party defector.” Morka dismissed Tambuwal’s critique, suggesting his repeated party-switching was also motivated by “stomach infrastructure.”
Morka further asserted that the growing number of defections to the APC was a reflection of people’s desire to align themselves with President Bola Tinubu’s ambitious economic reform agenda.
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“Evidently, his comments more aptly characterized his own convoluted record of defections from the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) in 2007 and back to the ANPP and then off to the PDP and decamping in 2014 to APC and finally crawling back to PDP, ignominiously, in 2018,” the statement reads.
“By his assertions, Tambuwal’s itinerant defections were in chase of “stomach infrastructure”, purely self-serving and without any conscience.
“A wandering politician like Tambuwal lacks the moral turpitude to comment on the intentions of politicians who have defected from a crisis-ridden PDP to our great party.
“Contrary to Tambuwal’s jibe, members of the PDP are joining APC, ostensibly, to identify with President Bola Tinubu’s bold economic reform agenda in the face of growing and undeniable positive indications of a resurgent Nigeria.
“Many of the defectors have offered this as the raison d’être for their defection, quite apart from the fact that the PDP is in a state of bedlam and is now an unrecognizable shadow of its old self.”
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