Decampees To APC Motivated By Hunger – Ekweremadu …As PDP Prays For Buhari

The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, came down hard on some politicians, who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to All Progressives Congress (APC), saying their defection was motivated by hunger and business interest.
Ekweremadu spoke at the expanded caucus meeting of the party in Abuja on a day that the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, Governor Ayodele Fayose, said he will continue to be a thorn in the flesh of the APC government by exposing its failures.
Ekweremadu, who was reacting to the recent defection of some PDP senators, said the action of the three lawmakers had not in any way affected the numerical strength of the party.
Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, enjoined leaders of the party in the states not to be distracted by the leadership challenge at the national level, even as he prayed for the speedy recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said with the impending ruling of the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt, he was sure that the party would bounce back in full force.
Also speaking, Chairman, PDP Governors’ Forum, Governor Ayodele Fayose, appealed to party leaders to work together while those aspiring for offices should do so with decorum.
Fayose noted that he will continue to express his mind and would not care if the Federal Government withdraws his police guards.
“I will continue to leak their secrets. I will remain a thorn in their flesh. Anything they want to do, let them come. If they want to carry their police, let them carry their police. I don’t care,” Fayose argued.
Reading a communiqué at the end of the meeting, party spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said the party will fight to reclaim its mandate surrendered by those who had defected from the party.
Among those present at the meeting, at the weekend, were members of the National Executive Committee (NEC), of the party, former and serving governors, former and serving members of the National Assembly, among other senior party chieftains.
It would be recalled that last weekend’s meeting was the largest gathering of party stakeholders under one roof since the crisis that engulfed the party in 2016.