APC Blasts Tambuwal Over Defections’ Stomach Infrastructure Comment
…Says He’s Notorious Defector
Abuja (Core Reporters) The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday blasted Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, for his recent comment on a gale of defections from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC.
The APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, in a statement on Sunday, in reaction to the former governor of Sokoto State and speaker house of representatives Tambuwal’s comments,where he described defections to the APC as being driven by “stomach infrastructure.”
Morka, in his statement highlighting Tambuwal’s history of party defections. The APC further accused Tambuwal of projecting his own motivations onto others.
“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,” Morka said.
“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 ANPP and then off to the PDP, and decamping in 2014 to APC and finally crawling back to PDP, ignominiously, in 2018,” Morka stated.
On the motivations of other politicians. The statement said, “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’etre 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,” he stated.
The statement went on to cite economic achievements under the current administration, including surpassing the OPEC quota for oil production, consistent trade surpluses, increased foreign direct investments, and a high-yielding stock market.
The APC therefore called on Tambuwal and other PDP leaders to take responsibility for the internal issues within their party.
“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,” the APC stated.
