The ruling All Progressives Congress on Sunday lambasted former Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal for what it described as a condescending remark about defecting members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

Tambuwal, after the North-West zonal meeting of the PDP in Kaduna on Saturday, attributed the recent defections of PDP bigwigs to the APC to “stomach infrastructure” rather than genuine public interest.

But in a statement released in Abuja on Sunday, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, dismissed Tambuwal’s comments, calling him a “serial defector.”

“There remains profound wisdom in the saying that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. That wisdom has clearly eluded Tambuwal, a notorious and vainglorious party defector. Evidently, his comments more aptly characterised his own convoluted record of defections from the ANPP to the Democratic People’s Party in 2007 and back to ANPP.

“He then went off to the PDP, decamping in 2014 to APC and finally crawling back to PDP, ignominiously, in 2018. 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.

“Instead of begrudging citizens for exercising their fundamental freedom of association, Tambuwal and fellow political villains, like former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, should accept responsibility for the political carnage in the PDP, apologize to their members, and maintain a humble and penitent disposition going forward,”* Morka stated.

Meanwhile, Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, has accused Governor Peter Mbah’s administration in Enugu State of stifling economic activities with excessive taxes and levies.

Speaking at a mini rally in Enugu on Sunday, where three prominent members of the PDP and Labour Party defected to the APC, Nnaji alleged that even “unborn babies” and “dead people” were being taxed in the state.

He declared that the APC was preparing to take over Enugu State in 2027.

“We are bringing up an alternative government, a government that is based on the people of Enugu State, a government that will come and listen to the cry of the people. We’re appealing to our people to keep joining the APC, that’s the part at the national.

“You can see the number of jobs we have provided both employment and appointments. It has never been this good in the South East and Enugu State in particular. You have seen how the PDP administration is stifling the economy with taxes. Even the dead people and unborn babies are now taxed in Enugu State,” Nnaji said.


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