Tinubu’s Economic Strides Attracting More People To APC –  Felix Morka

By Ayodele Oni

National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Felix Morka has said that more politicians continue to join the ruling party to identify with President Bola Tinubu’s bold economic reform agenda.

Morka was reacting to remarks by Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, former governor of Sokoto State and Senator representing Sokoto South, that those politicians decamping to APC are driven by hunger and lack conscience.

In a statement on Sunday the APC scribe noted that “Evidently, his comments more aptly  characterized his own convoluted record of defections from the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) in 2007 and back to ANPP and then off  to the PDP, and decamping in 2014 to APC and finally crawling back to PDP, ignominiously, in 2018.

“By his assertions, Tambuwal’s itinerant defections were in chase of ‘stomach infrastructure’, purely self-serving and without any conscience.

“A wandering politician like Tambuwal lacks the moral turpitude to comment on the intentions of politicians who have defected from a crisis-ridden PDP to our great Party.

“Contrary to Tambuwal’s  jibe, members of the PDP are joining APC, ostensibly, to identify with President Bola Tinubu’s bold economic reform agenda  in the face of growing and undeniable positive indications of a resurgent Nigeria.

“Many of the defectors have offered this as the raison d’etre for their defection, quite apart from the fact that the PDP is in a state of bedlam, and is now an unrecognizable shadow of its old self.

“Recently, for the first time in many years, on President Tinubu’s vigilant watch, the country has surpassed its  Organisation of Petroluem Exporting Countries’ (OPEC’s) quota of 1.5 mbpd.

“This remarkable feat is attributable to a combination of factors, from vastly improved security to purpose-driven oil sector reforms.

“Similarly, the country has recorded consistent trade surpluses; increased Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs); high yielding stock market; enhanced foreign reserve and numerous other indices of a steadily rebounding economy.

“Instead of begrudging citizens for exercising their fundamental freedom of association, Tambuwal and fellow political villains, like former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, should accept responsibility for the political carnage in the PDP, apologize to their members and maintain a humble and penitent disposition going forward.”