The lawmaker representing Abia South Senatorial District, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has declared that he will never consider defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Gkingmusik reports that Abaribe made the declaration on Monday during an appearance on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television, amid the growing wave of defections to the APC.
His comments followed recent defections of several governors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling party.
Recall that the governors of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Enugu, Delta, Rivers and Taraba states have all dumped the PDP for the APC.
Reacting to the development, Abaribe insisted that he would not be joining the ruling party under any circumstances.
“If there’s anybody that’s going to defect to APC, I think I should be the very last one. By the time I will defect, it means that there will be no political parties in Nigeria including the APC,” he said.
The senator also questioned the circumstances surrounding the defections of the governors, noting that many of them had previously opposed President Bola Tinubu.
“Now ask yourself, in all the states where there are defections, what is going on there? These governors were in the opposition, worked against Tinubu in the 2023 general elections.
“Then all of a sudden, the same governors defect and you hand over the party to them,” Abaribe added.
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