President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the new National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, and others who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and elected into the APC’s National Working Committee (NWC) are ‘repented sinners’.
President Buhari said this, on Sunday, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.
The statement followed the criticism by the PDP that Adamu and some others who defected from the PDP to the APC were accommodated in the ruling party at the federal level to cover for their ‘sins’.
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Apart from Sen. Adamu, others who defected from the PDP and now in the NWC of the APC elected by consensus on Saturday at the party’s National Convention in Abuja on Saturday included Sen. Iyiola Omisore, Hon. Victor Gaidom and Osita Medener.
Reacting to the PDP’s criticism against the APC, Garba Shehu quoted his principal as saying, “That some of the APC’s new leadership were once in the opposition was the new line to take to the media, somehow suggesting that those who have left one party should not hold positions in another.
“Yet, do the Scriptures not teach us of the virtue of sinners who repent and change their ways?
“What the Scriptures say less is of sinners who repent, change their tune and then choose to re-sin in full public view by returning to their former ways.
“Given that most important leaders of the opposition PDP first left the party before they returned to it, we might expect the media to ensure criticism of them is damning and absolute.
“It is incredulous that anyone would consider them trustworthy or acceptable candidates for any public office.”
Speaking on the next line of action for the party, President Buhari said the time had come to prepare the grounds for the primaries for the 2023 elections.
Tne President was further quoted as saying, “No doubt some will attempt to argue the impossible – that an APC primary election is a source of division while an opposition primary election is a source of consensus.
“But the good voters of Nigeria can see through such acrobatics and know the facts that, when the contests for 2023 come, APC offers a track record of success and leadership, while the opposition has only decades of failure and complicity in response.”
