Lawmakers Defecting To APC Are Patriots, Not Opportunists — Akpabio

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has described the caller question of defections from absorption parties to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) arsenic an enactment of patriotism and a ballot of assurance successful President Bola Tinubu’s leadership.

Akpabio made the remark connected Wednesday nighttime aft starring 2 lawmakers, Senator Agom Jarigbe (Cross River North) and Senator Kaila Samaila Dahuwa (Bauchi North), to a gathering with President Tinubu astatine the State House, Abuja.

Both senators precocious dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the APC.

Speaking to journalists aft the meeting, Akpabio said the lawmakers’ determination reflected increasing enactment for the President’s economical reforms and his committedness to nationalist development.

“They (Jarigbe and Dahuwa) are Mr. President’s children, and they are his supporters. The President is the begetter of the federation and the begetter of each governmental parties,” Akpabio said.

He added that though the lawmakers were primitively elected connected antithetic governmental platforms, the President’s “transformative policies” had inspired them to align with the ruling party.

“But interestingly, they joined the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria connected antithetic governmental platforms. As a effect of Mr President’s policies that person turned things astir economically, peculiarly successful presumption of gross procreation they recovered it expedient to travel and articulation to physique Nigeria,” Akpabio explained.

“Theirs is thing but patriotism. They are not funny successful which governmental enactment is successful power, but successful who tin tally Nigeria, who tin amended Nigeria, and who tin enactment nutrient connected the tables of Nigerians,” helium added.

Also speaking, Senator Jarigbe said his defection was driven by condemnation alternatively than politics, noting that President Tinubu’s show and policies motivated his decision.

“I joined the APC due to the fact that the President is truly doing well, and I privation to travel successful and enactment him successful delivering the dividends of ideology to our people,” Jarigbe said.