The Transition Monitoring Group has expressed
concern over what it described as “whirlwind of
opportunistic defections” currently gripping the
polity, warning that it signals a dangerous trend
towards a one party state in which an opposition
is non-existent.
This was contained in a statement by the
Chairman of TMG, Mr. Ibrahim Zikirullahi, in
Abuja on Friday.
According to the civil rights group, the
unrepentant members of ‘Any Government In
Power’ would stop at nothing until they
overwhelm the incoming administration.
“It is the patriotic duty of all Nigerians to ensure
the people own the incoming government and
dictate its direction,” it said.
The organisation said it was most disconcerting
that members of the Peoples Democratic Party,
whose party was defeated by the All Progressives
Congress in the recent Presidential election,
were currently abandoning their platform and
“moving in droves to join the victorious party.”
TMG explained that it had become imperative
that the President-Elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.), and his deputy, Prof. Yemi
Osinbajo (SAN), should ensure that they recruit a
good team to run the government in a manner
that would reflect the popular will of Nigerians
as expressed on March 28.
He said, “This is a direct blow to the very heart
of Nigeria’s evolving democracy. This
unprincipled act of shameless ship-jumping is an
attempt to thwart or irretrievably dilute the
change, which the Nigerian people voted for on
March 28.
“TMG is discomfited by the curious logic that
informs this mass exodus of politicians from the
PDP to the APC. Are these not the same sworn
adversaries, who bandied words, heated up the
polity, and went for each other’s jugular during
the election period?
“What has suddenly changed in an ideological
sense to warrant this new found attraction and
the marriages being consummated through the
defections?”
According to Zikirullahi, this kind of tendencies
has led some people to conclude that there is no
particular difference between the APC and the
PDP.
The claim, TMG said, was further buttressed by
the reality staring the citizens in the face
because “a democracy without a strong and
viable opposition, is nothing but a smokescreen
for dictatorship.”
concern over what it described as “whirlwind of
opportunistic defections” currently gripping the
polity, warning that it signals a dangerous trend
towards a one party state in which an opposition
is non-existent.
This was contained in a statement by the
Chairman of TMG, Mr. Ibrahim Zikirullahi, in
Abuja on Friday.
According to the civil rights group, the
unrepentant members of ‘Any Government In
Power’ would stop at nothing until they
overwhelm the incoming administration.
“It is the patriotic duty of all Nigerians to ensure
the people own the incoming government and
dictate its direction,” it said.
The organisation said it was most disconcerting
that members of the Peoples Democratic Party,
whose party was defeated by the All Progressives
Congress in the recent Presidential election,
were currently abandoning their platform and
“moving in droves to join the victorious party.”
TMG explained that it had become imperative
that the President-Elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.), and his deputy, Prof. Yemi
Osinbajo (SAN), should ensure that they recruit a
good team to run the government in a manner
that would reflect the popular will of Nigerians
as expressed on March 28.
He said, “This is a direct blow to the very heart
of Nigeria’s evolving democracy. This
unprincipled act of shameless ship-jumping is an
attempt to thwart or irretrievably dilute the
change, which the Nigerian people voted for on
March 28.
“TMG is discomfited by the curious logic that
informs this mass exodus of politicians from the
PDP to the APC. Are these not the same sworn
adversaries, who bandied words, heated up the
polity, and went for each other’s jugular during
the election period?
“What has suddenly changed in an ideological
sense to warrant this new found attraction and
the marriages being consummated through the
defections?”
According to Zikirullahi, this kind of tendencies
has led some people to conclude that there is no
particular difference between the APC and the
PDP.
The claim, TMG said, was further buttressed by
the reality staring the citizens in the face
because “a democracy without a strong and
viable opposition, is nothing but a smokescreen
for dictatorship.”
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