Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has questioned the rationale for the defection of sitting governors to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
News360 Info reports that George, while reacting to the defection of the Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, to the APC on Tuesday, during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said governors alone do not make a party.
He stated that governors are only an added value to a party, stressing that it is the people who truly make up the party.
He said, “Governors alone don’t make the party, they are an added value. The people make up your party. We will campaign. We will go to the field and explain to the people. What has the APC done to put a smile on the faces of Nigerians? What are the economic indices?
“It’s not the matter of being in the government and they think they can manoeuvre and manipulate results for them to win elections.”
Meanwhile, Mbah has stated that the detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, can only be resolved politically.
Speaking during a statewide broadcast on Tuesday, following his public defection from the PDP to the APC, Mbah explained that he met with President Bola Tinubu on Kanu’s issue a week after Tinubu assumed office.
The governor asserted that his position on Kanu’s incarceration has remained consistent since he assumed office.
He said. “It took barely a week after I assumed office that I had a meeting with the President, and I was very specific when I came out to address the press that I also raised the issue of Nnamdi Kanu with the President.”
Governor Mbah explained that he had always believed that resolving the matter politically remained the most sustainable approach.
The Enugu governor urged stakeholders across the South-East to embrace the concept of a political resolution and to work collectively in shaping a unified position before engaging with the federal authorities.
