Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, was ready to meet the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in court following the defection of its (PDP) five Governors to the opposition.
Amaechi stated this in Port Harcourt on Wednesday while speaking as a guest on radio (95.1 FM, Port Harcourt).
The Governor recalled that many Governors had in the past defected to the PDP without being sacked by courts.
According to him, “Courts don’t impeach. But we are waiting. The courts’ position (in the past) is very clear. Zamfara governor moved to the PDP and the court held that he had the right to move if there was a disagreement in his party.
“The Bauchi State governor moved from ANPP (defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party) to the PDP and another court held that he had the right to move. Abia State governor (Theodore Orji) moved from Progressives Peoples Alliance to the PDP and Kebbi State governor also moved from the ANPP to the PDP. They are so many and the PDP was so happy absorbing them.
“Now that five of us have gone and the chances of more governors moving to the APC appear to be there, the PDP is panicking. We are ready to meet them in court; we have hired lawyers and our lawyers can battle with them.”
However, the PDP National Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, boasted that Amaechi and his colleagues would willingly return to the party soon.
Tukur told a team of Nigerian professionals in Europe on Wednesday while in London , that measures were being put in place by the PDP leadership and President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure that those who defected from the ruling party return on their own.
Tukur did not mention the names of the defectors, but he was referring to the five former PDP Governors- Amaechi (Rivers), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara); Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto); Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); and Musa Kwankwaso (Kano).
He said, “The PDP remains a party with the largest spread and tested strength to win elections any day, any time. I urge all our members in Nigeria not to be browbeaten by images of political delusion that confront them every day from different quarters.
“The PDP is at home to contain all forms of harassment by the opposition, either vaunted or intended. If it is a game of number in any election, you can always count that the PDP would have it greater.
“The good thing is that if five people move out of the PDP into the other party, even by a dint of propaganda, the party takes in more than 500 at a time, as replacement. The electorate in Nigeria trust the PDP more than many people are aware of,” he added.
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