The immediate past Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has said that former Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal cannot truly talk of conscience after conniving to wreck the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Okechukwu said this while answering questions from journalists on the position of Senator Aminu Tambuwal that no one with conscience will join the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Okechukwu foundation, a member of the APC, said “Tambuwal cannot truly talk of conscience when he connived to wreck the PDP; hence it is the trust deficit of his Party’s leadership which simulates defectors.”
Tambuwal had at the North West Zonal meeting of the PDP expressed disappointment over the recent wave of defections by members of the PDP to the ruling APC.
He was quoted as saying that, “I believe that no one with conscience will join the APC. People leave parties for different reasons, but what I have been observing in recent times are defections not based on the interest of the people but on stomach infrastructure.”
Okechukwu upon this statement retorted that the wave of the defections is basically the outcome of erroneous breach of the rotation convention of president and Section 7 of the PDP’s Constitution of which Tambuwal was one of the masterminds.
“One cannot fathom how my friend Senator Tambuwal didn’t rate the breach of the rotation convention, especially against his erstwhile bosom friend Nyesom Wike, Minister of FCT; who backed him in 2018 presidential primary when no aspirant of southern extraction in the PDP contested in obedience to the rotation convention as unconscionable?
“This is the offshoot of Wike Masquerade raging” – Okechukwu submitted.
He reminded Tambuwal and his cohorts that some patriotic members of the PDP are defecting because the party has been demobilised, irretrievably wreckage rendered and ineffective to play its traditional role of main opposition party.
When told of the impending coalition or merger which will dislodge the APC in 2027 presidential election, Okechukwu replied that the greed in the party will not allow them to forge solid merger.
He said they have already started cooking up awkward permutation of south 17 and north 11 years in Aso Villa, just to rupture again the rotation convention, as if Nigeria got independence in 1999.
“Tambuwal and cohorts act as if they have 100% votes of the north in their pocket and albeit the northern electorates are quarantined in a dormitory to be hauled to the polling booth on Election Day.
“Their masterminds always forget that the northern electorates are one of the most sophisticated in the country and cannot be toyed with.
“Or do they think that the southeastern electorates that put all their eggs in one PDP’s electoral basket, even when APC presented Rt. Honourables Chuba Okadigbo and Edwin Umezoke in 2003 and 2007 as vice presidents respectively are amnesia stricken? The defection is not about stomach infrastructure, it’s about PDP’s leadership trust deficit.” Okechukwu opined.
