Your defections were driven by stomach infrastructure without conscience, APC replies Tambuwal

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has responded to the recent comment of Aminu Tambuwal, the former governor of Sokoto, against the ruling party.

On Saturday, Tambuwal said no politician with a conscience would join APC, adding that those defecting to the ruling party are driven by “stomach infrastructure”.

The former speaker of the house of representatives said the current economic situation in the country makes the membership of the ruling APC unattractive.

He spoke on Saturday in Kaduna after the PDP national executive council (NEC) meeting in the north-west zone.

However, Felix Morka, APC spokesperson, in a statement issued on Sunday, described the former Sokoto governor as a “notorious and vainglorious party defector” who should not be insulting those joining the ruling party.

Morka said Tambuwal’s “itinerant defections” from one party to another were driven by “stomach infrastructure”.

The APC spokesperson said those joining the ruling party want to “identify with President Bola Tinubu’s bold economic reform agenda”.

“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.”