A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba, has joined the All Progressives Congress, APC, after dumping the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, two days ago.
Na’abba is presently being received by the National Working Committee and other top members of the APC at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
In a brief remark, the former Speaker said he decided to join the APC because the PDP has refused to change its undemocratic ways of doing things.
He also said he had left the party before, in 2005 but returned after late President Musa Yar’adua assumed office in 2007 and promised change. The promise, he said, was not fulfilled.
“I believe the country needs change, particularly at the top,” he said, adding that Nigeria has suffered serious misrule in the 16 years of PDP administration.
He said that the “APC is now a national party. It is no longer what they used to vilify it with. I am joining the party to sustain the momentum of change. Buhari is going to become the next president, and it is our desire he becomes a national leader and not a sectional one.
“We must be patient, considerate and accommodating in this country. Nigerians are the easiest to govern. Once you carry them along, they will support you. The leaders are not carrying Nigerians along; that is why we have all these problems.”
While welcoming Na’ Abba to the party, its national chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun described the former speaker as “a personality of indisputable quality,” and declared that Na’ Abba had become an automatic member of one of the highest organs of the party – the board of trustees.
“Every one of Na’ Abba we get, we celebrate because there is work to be done,” Oyegun said, even as he criticised the PDP, saying that “The PDP is at war with the entire nation, they are at war with Jega and they are at war with themselves.
“The PDP is tired; it is disoriented and confused. The party should be sent to the recovery bin. Nigeria is not a difficult country to govern. What it needs is leadership. But the PDP is leaving behind a nation divided like never before.”
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