Chairman of the Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (Pi-CNG), Ismaeel Ahmed, has asserted that the wave of defections in the opposition party is due to weakness.
Naijaonpoint reports that Ahmed made this statement on Monday, during an interview on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme.
The PDP has lost almost all the governors to the All Progressives Congress (APC), with Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, as the latest defector.
However, the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, and his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Mohammed, are the only two PDP governors remaining, with rumours that the latter will soon dump the party for the APC.
Speaking on the mass defections to the ruling party, Ahmed blamed the opposition party, stressing that the APC does not go out of its way to look for people to join.
He said, “We don’t go out of our way looking for people to come just because they want to defect or we want to weaken the opposition. I thought personally that the opposition was just unbelievably weak.
“I am not a fan of defectors in political parties. The political and democratic spirit in me does not appreciate defections.
“What I’m saying is that we are merrier every time somebody comes to us. I thought, personally, that the opposition was just unbelievably weak. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
“They couldn’t take advantage of so many issues to better their lots.”