Buhari’s Political Adviser says APC defectors left because they were denied stealing strategy by government

*Accuses Atiku of twisting facts against APC, Buhari

“Atiku’s defection is not surprising. During the meeting of the G-19, the Legacy Group that formed the APC, Atiku was there. We laid our programmes as a government before the party leaders and asked for their contributions. He was the only person who refused to talk.  The second time the meeting was called, Atiku did not attend. We knew that he would leave. Each time he wants to leave a house, he demolishes the house.”

All may not have been heard about the real reason the members of New PDP bloc who finally moved out of the All Progressives Congress (APC) back into their former party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) defected as Special Adviser on Political Matter to President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, says it was more of their being denied their usual stealing strategy under the Buhari-led government than they claimed.

Senator Ojudu, who in another report, wondered whether his journalist colleagues no longer understand what a breaking news is thereby reporting defections of such people from APC as “breaking”, reportedly described the defectors as “political nomads”.

The Presidential Political Adviser was said to have stated this while speaking with newsmen in Calabar the Cross River state capital.

He said their defection was a blessing in disguise to both President Buhari and the people of Nigeria.

Ojudu, who was a governorship aspirant in the last APC primaries in Ekiti State, said the ordinary people of Nigeria know the integrity of the President which the defectors were not comfortable with before they left for their old homes.

Three governors and many federal and state legislators have left the ruling All Progressives Congress for the People’s Democratic Party over what they claimed to be irreconcilable political differences.

Particularly speaking, Ojudu on another platform Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, also said former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is playing his last political card.

Describing the former vice-president as a serial defector, he accused Atiku Abubakar of being desperate with his presidential ambition.

Abubakar had defected to the Peoples Democratic Party after accusing the government of President Muhammadu Buhari of sidelining him.

Ojudu claimed that Abubakar did not make any meaningful contribution to the All Progressives Congress, a party he co-founded.

“Atiku’s defection is not surprising. During the meeting of the G-19, the Legacy Group that formed the APC, Atiku was there. We laid our programmes as a government before the party leaders and asked for their contributions. He was the only person who refused to talk,” he said.

“The second time the meeting was called, Atiku did not attend. We knew that he would leave. Each time he wants to leave a house, he demolishes the house.

“Though it will be stupid to dismiss his weight, he is an asset to an extent that he stays there. His goal is to become president. If he cannot get the ticket, he will leave.

“Atiku is playing his last card. He is desperate to be president. If President Buhari gets a second term, he knows that the presidency will go to another region. Before it goes back to the north, it may take years and he would have become old.

“What were the contributions of Atiku to APC’s efforts to rebuild Nigeria? What has he done in Adamawa to solve the problem of unemployment? What agenda for youths did he take to the president that was rejected?”

Ojudu accused Abubakar of twisting facts and whipping up sentiments against Buhari and the leadership of APC.