Lawmakers in the country’s lower chamber (photo credit: )
Members of the House of Representatives who recently defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party have insisted that they will not return to the party.
They said the party should stop dreaming that such a thing would happen.
As stated by the members, their decision to leave the ruling party did not come easy but it came after they had weighed all other options.
They were reacting to fresh reconciliation moves by the APC and alleged offer of return tickets to the members to contest the 2019 polls.
Thirty-seven lawmakers had on Tuesday defected from the APC. Thirty-two of them moved to the PDP, while four members united with the African Democratic Congress.
One member has yet to name his new party.
The Coordinator of the 32 defectors, Razak Atunwa, fumed at the thought of returning to the APC.
Atunwa, who is the chairman, House Committee on Justice, said the APC had “limited understanding” of governance, a reason the party reduced the defection to just return ticket.
He said, “Ticket or no ticket, this is a decision that we have taken and we know this is the best.
“We are talking about fundamental national issues, lack of good governance and generally, a government that has failed to deliver on its promises to the Nigerian people.
“When you reduce it to ticket, you make this whole fight look unserious or merely which party has majority or not majority. We are talking about a government that has failed.”