The political landscape is taking
shape ahead of the 2015 battle. About 1,000 PDP members including the former
National Treasurer, Bode Mustapha, who are loyal of President Olusegun Obasanjo
in Ogun State have defected to the APC.
Mustapha, also a former member of
House of Representatives between 1999 and 2003 who had earlier submitted his
form of intent for the Ogun Central Senatorial seat, led other prominent
members of the PDP including the former Chairman of Abeokuta North, Sunday
Akintona. He described APC as a better alternative to PDP.
They warned the Inspector General of
Police, IGP, Suleiman Abba against plunging the country into war following his
removal of the security details of the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Aminu Tambuwal.
Mustapha said, “In Nigeria, we love sentiments a lot. Do we
know what can happen to Nigeria if anything should happen to Speaker Tambuwal?
Nobody knows! The IGP should not put this country on fire. He should immediately
restore Tambuwa’s security aides until a court of competent jurisdiction
declares his seat vacant.
“He was elected as the primus
inter-pares in the House of Representatives. He was elected as leader by his
members and it is only his members that can remove him as Speaker or a court of
competent jurisdiction. Then and only then can his security aides be withdrawn.
“When people were defecting to PDP,
it was hosanna in Aso Rock to the extent that Governor Mimiko of Ondo State
defected to the PDP.
“But whatever is good for the goose
is equally good for the gander. When Tambuwal defected, you withdrew his
security aides. Why didn’t you do same when Governor Mimiko defected to the PDP
because he was elected on the platform of the Labour Party, LP?”
The APC state Deputy Chairman,
Alhaji Tajudeen Lemboye, who received Mustapha’s form, promised that the APC
would provide a level playing field for all aspirants in the state.
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