The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC), is employing undemocratic means, blackmail and dirty tricks in forcing members of the opposition parties particularly serving governors into joining the ruling party at all costs.
The PDP also said that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led APC government id determined to decimate the opposition as part of its plan to foist a one-party state on the country.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, who stated these while reacting to claims by Bashir Ahmad, a former aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, that two PDP Governors will in the next few days defect to the APC, stressed that most of the defections were not voluntary, but based on coercion, harassment, inducement, and intimidation.
Ahmad had in a post via his verified Twitter handle on Tuesday, October 7, specifically said that the Governor of Taraba State and another governor from the North West will in just a matter of days, formally defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
But, the spokesperson of the PDP, insisted that such forced defections tactics would not last, adding that the PDP is bigger than individual members, saying that as some people are leaving, others are also joining the party.
In the words of Ologunagba; “A party is not about individuals but all the people. We have more and more diverse people working for the PDP today. More and more people are returning to the PDP because it’s getting itself together.
“The defections you see today are instigated by inducement, harassment, coercion, intimidation, and I can assure that it won’t last,” he said.
