‘Defectors from PDP to APC are political harlots’

Members of the  Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC, following  the latter’s    nationwide  victory in the presidential ,National  Assembly  and gubernatorial elections across  the country have been advised to   return  to the PDP to help rebuild the party.

Making the appeal  in Lagos,a PDP  member of the House of Representatives representing Ondo

East-Ondo West Federal  Constituency, Hon Joseph Akinlaja, implored the defected PDP  members to have a  rethink of their action, adding that the defeat of the party  at the polls didn’t mean that the party had collapsed.

“PDP is still very  much alive. PDP is not dead. PDP  will rise again. Our   defeat during the  elections by APC  should not discourage  PDP  members. Defection is not then  answer. The best   thing for all of us  to do   is  to re-strategies, and come back    as a  formidable political party to  challenge APC with a view of becoming the ruling party  again”, he declared.

While saying the PDP will  strive to become a stronger political party,  he told the defectors:

“I don’t  want the defectors to see politics as   bread and  butter affair alone.    Politics is also about principle . Why  should you cross carpet or defect simply because your party lost an election? Election is about losing and winning. When you win, you   celebrate and  when you lose it is not the end of the world, you only need to go back to the drawing board  to plan for the future. If you jump ship anytime your party have challenges  or lost an  election,then you are a political harlot, and that is not good for your image”.

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