Buhari Reacts To Ex-PDP Members In APC Exco

President Muhammadu Buhari has said the new National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, being a founding member of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a thing of the past.

Recall Adamu served as governor of Nasarawa state on the platform of the PDP and went on to also clinch his senatorial position as a member of the party in 2011.

At the end of his two-term as governor, Adamu became secretary, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP and only defected from the PDP in 2013 having joined the then “New PDP” which left with some chieftains of the then ruling party to join the newly formed APC.

In a statement on Sunday signed by Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said that the stage is now set for the APC primary elections adding that the unity displayed at the convention has placed the party on a firmer footing for victory in the 2023 general elections.

He blamed the opposition for the mindset of division in the APC, stressing that “in all these years” they “had done the work to only divide the country, leading to all manner of separatist agitations. But this is not the wish, nor is it in the character of the citizens, as was clear for everyone to see at the Eagle Square.”

He added that “When their fake news of disunity was undone by the facts, some in the opposition could not help themselves but take to the newspapers and the airwaves to find another way to shore up their reputations.

“That some of the APC’s new leadership were once in the opposition was the new line to take to the media, somehow suggesting that those who have left one party should not hold positions in another. Yet, do the Scriptures not teach us of the virtue of sinners who repent and change their ways?

“What the Scriptures say less is of sinners who repent, change their tune, and then choose to re-sin in full public view by returning to their former ways. “Given that most important leaders of the opposition PDP first left the party before they returned to it, we might expect the media to ensure criticism of them is damning and absolute. It is incredulous that anyone would consider them trustworthy or acceptable candidates for any public office.”