In the perception of many political watchers, the rate at which the presidency and national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are grandstanding over the seamless poaching of the chieftains, members, and political office holders from the opposition political parties in various states, tends to confirm their mission to possibly contest the 2027 presidential election almost unopposed.
For the APC, the plans to weaken the opposition parties through the defections of important chieftains have, so far so good, been smooth sailing, judging by the endless harvest of the state governors defecting, in droves, to the APC’s moving train.
And as at the last count, five governors, comprising Delta, Sheriff Oborevwori, Akwa-Ibom, Umo Eno, Enugu, Peter Mbah, Bayelsa, Douye Diri, Taraba, Agbu Kefas, and Adamawa, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, have either defected fully to the APC, or issued notice of intent to dump their party that gave them the platforms, preparatory to replacing the umbrella with the broom.
In the words of many analysts, apart from the serving governors defecting with the full complement of the state’s political structure, comprising almost all the elective, appointive officials and the party’s state executives, the defection of the 2023 vice presidential candidate, Ifeanyi Okowa, among other prominent politicians, confirmed the level the APC-led government has gone to harvest from the opposition parties.
The wave of defections presently is even more noticeable at both chambers of the National Assembly, where its Principal Officers have been constantly engrossed in celebrating, constituting an overwhelming majority of members that have jumped out of the opposition seats to the ruling party, apparently due to the insoluble leadership crises rocking those other parties.
In fact, it has become so good that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, sarcastically attributed the wave of defections recently as a display of sense of patriotism, claiming that the wave of defections is an attestation to the level of confidence the defectors have in President Bola Tinubu’s leadership.
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