Senator Ndume
By Our Reporter
Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume has reiterated his earlier assertion that the recent massive defections of some National Assembly members from the All Progressives Congress, (APC) will not in any way pose a threat to the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 general elections.
Senator Ndume, who represents Borno South Senatorial District, said this while speaking to newsmen in Maiduguri.
He said President Buhari remains the most credible, acceptable and popular candidate by Nigerians arguing that defectors got it all wrong.
Ndume said the defectors have instead increase Buhari’s popularity, saying, they are at the wrong directions.
“If you think you defected to undermine Buhari’s victory, then you are wrong, because the president has the support of the electorates.
The defectors are the ones to lose because their people didn’t defect,” he noted.
He described the defectors as a gang up against Buhari, a ploy to plot and frustrate his victory in the 2019 general elections, due to his intense anti-corruption crusade, believing that it will affect them if he returns in the second tenure in 2019.
Ndume criticized all the defectors, alleging that they committed “illegality.”
“The law says when you are elected on the platform of a party, you can only defect from that party by the instrument of a faction within that party.
“As it is today, there is no faction within the APC in the legal sense of it. There is only rAPC, and rAPC is not a faction of the APC by law. If you defect from your party, not on the basis of a faction, you lose whatever position you attain by the vehicle of that party,” he said.
