President-elect Muhammadu
Buhari said the All Progressives
Congress (APC) has
nothing to
fear over mass defection of
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
members to the party.
“I have no fears of PDP
defectors,” he said in an
interview in his Daura residence
on Saturday.
Buhari said the PDP chieftains
will have very little influence in
the APC government.
He said APC has all the capacity to
manage the large numbers of PDP
defectors.
“The people who are defecting
will only have influence in their
constituencies. Since their
constituencies are now controlled
by the APC their influence is
therefore limited,” he said.
Though the president-elect said
only the party can handle the
issue of defections, he said the
PDP bigwigs will be wise enough
not to jostle for positions in the
new government.
“I hope the people that are
defecting will accept the fact that
they are joining the people who
succeeded. So, I don’t think they
will just come and say they want
to be ministers next month
simply because they were
ministers before,” he said.
