The Special Adviser to Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has stated that the recent defections of opposition politicians to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) were voluntary and not under any form of duress, as has been speculated in some quarters.
Denying accusations of a one-party state in a statement on Sunday, Onanuga insisted that democracy is not under threat or undermined “simply because politicians exercise their rights of association.”
“Nigerians migrating to the APC and expressing support for Tinubu are doing so out of their free will, based on the belief that the reforms being executed are in the interest of Nigerians and the unborn generation,” Onanuga said.
This is coming after last Wednesday’s defection of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, his predecessor, Ifeanyi Okowa, Deputy Governor, Monday Onyeme, commissioners, local government chairmen, among others.
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Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have also promised that more governors would defect to the party to deepen subnational government in the States.
The chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum and Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, stated that the gale of defections is a testimony that the APC government in Nigeria, led by Bola Tinubu, is being admired by many people.
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