A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has called on the opposition parties to stop blaming President Bola Tinubu for the defection of their members to the ruling party.
Oyintiloye, who was a lawmaker, made the call while speaking with journalists on Sunday in Osogbo, the state capital.
According to him, rather than blaming the President, members of the opposite parties should focus on fixing the crisis within their folds.
The APC chieftain, while noting that political realignment is not new in Nigeria, said that the recent wave of defections was due to ideological persuasion and not coercion as being speculated in some quarters.
Oyintiloye added that the opposition parties were witnessing mass defections of members due to unresolved internal wranglings over the years.
“The defectors claimed that they were been side-lined, undermined, unfairly treated by their former parties, leaving them with no option but to switch to a party with a sustainable transformation agenda.
“This season of political recalibration that is leading to growing number of Nigerian politicians defecting en masse to APC is an indication that the party is well structured to transform the country through the ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’ of the President,” he stated.
Oyintiloye, who predicted more defections from the opposition parties, especially the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, advised them not to blame the President for lack of cohesion in managing their internal affairs.
The former lawmaker also said that the impression in some quarters that the wave of defections of members of the opposition parties to APC could lead to one party system was not correct.
