Adams Oshiomhole, a senator from Edo North, claims that former vice president Atiku Abubakar has no moral authority to condemn former Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s choice to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and join the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Atiku, a serial defector, is unable to challenge Okowa, who has only defected once, said Oshiomhole.
Speaking at the 28th Founders’ Day Lecture of the Independent Television and Radio, which had as its theme “Nigeria, where are we going?” the former governor of Edo State reportedly made the submission on Wednesday.
Oshiomhole recounted that Atiku, who was the vice president at the time, left the party that had given him the platform, joined another party, received its presidential ticket, and ran for office but failed.
Since switching parties is his specialty, he said, the PDP leader has no moral authority to reprimand them because the Supreme Court ruled that his actions were perfectly acceptable.
People who attempted to assess the significance of Edo and Delta’s reunion with Dr. Okowa and Governor Oborevwori joining the APC were speaking to me.
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And others who are speaking, like as Atiku, who made it clear to us via his actions that a sitting vice president can leave his party and serve as vice president of an opposition party and still be in office, as the Supreme Court has ruled.
In my capacity as NLC president at the time, I served as the unofficial opposition. Then he moved to Bourdillon, Lagos, to join another party named Action Congress, where he ran for president but failed.
The same individual who is more vocal in his criticism of Okowa once again switched to the PDP, ran for office, and lost; he then changed his affiliation to the APC and ran against former President Muhammadu Buhari, but lost. He returned to the PDP and ran against President Bola Tinubu, but lost, he claimed.
He claimed that Atiku’s criticism of a man who had just switched political parties once astonished him.
