Olusegun Ariyo
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Chief Olabode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has claimed that there is more to why governors are dumping opposition parties to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.In an interview with Journalists, Bode George, reacting specifically to the recent wave of defection in Bayelsa State, said it was a shame for Governor Douye Diri to leave the PDP for the APC.According to him, Diri should have more respect for the people of the state because he “became governor through the Supreme Court pronouncement”.He noted that the refusal of the governor’s deputy and other PDP leaders in the state to quit the opposition party is a sign that the governor’s move is beyond changing political parties.“It is a shame on him because a rolling stone gathers no moss. Something must be attracting them to the APC because what impact has the party had on Nigerians that has made Nigerians happy?“The debt portfolio of the country has increased. If you go to the market, people are lamenting; young people are graduating, and there is no hope. So I don’t know what is driving them there (APC).“Some say after their tenure, they would land in the EFCC, and so what?“Meanwhile, his deputy and some other party leaders say they are not moving with him to the APC. Isn’t that a signal?
Chief Olabode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has claimed that there is more to why governors are dumping opposition parties to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
In an interview with Journalists, Bode George, reacting specifically to the recent wave of defection in Bayelsa State, said it was a shame for Governor Douye Diri to leave the PDP for the APC.
According to him, Diri should have more respect for the people of the state because he “became governor through the Supreme Court pronouncement”.
He noted that the refusal of the governor’s deputy and other PDP leaders in the state to quit the opposition party is a sign that the governor’s move is beyond changing political parties.
“It is a shame on him because a rolling stone gathers no moss. Something must be attracting them to the APC because what impact has the party had on Nigerians that has made Nigerians happy?
“The debt portfolio of the country has increased. If you go to the market, people are lamenting; young people are graduating, and there is no hope. So I don’t know what is driving them there (APC).
“Some say after their tenure, they would land in the EFCC, and so what?
“Meanwhile, his deputy and some other party leaders say they are not moving with him to the APC. Isn’t that a signal?
“As for Peter Mbah, there was this secretaryship tussle, but we begged them to be patient that Samuel Anyanwu’s tenure would expire by the middle of next month”, he said.
