Defections: APC Slams Tambuwal Over “Stomach Infrastructure” Comments

Defections: APC Slams Tambuwal Over “Stomach Infrastructure” Comments

JOEL OLADELE, Abuja 

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly criticized Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, former governor of Sokoto state, for his recent remarks on defections from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The APC, through its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, issued a statement on Sunday, responding to Tambuwal’s comments, made on Saturday, where he characterized defections to the APC as being driven by “stomach infrastructure.”

In the statement, Morka pointed out the irony of Tambuwal’s criticism, highlighting his own history of party defections.

“There remains profound wisdom in the saying that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. That wisdom has clearly eluded Tambuwal, a notorious and vainglorious party defector,” Morka said.

The APC further accused Tambuwal of projecting his own motivations onto others.

“Evidently, his comments more aptly characterized his own convoluted record of defections from the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) in 2007 and back to ANPP and then off to the PDP, and decamping in 2014 to APC and finally crawling back to PDP, ignominiously, in 2018,” Morka stated.

He also accused Tambuwal of lacking the moral authority to comment on the motivations of other politicians.

“By his assertions, Tambuwal’s itinerant defections were in chase of ‘stomach infrastructure’, purely self-serving and without any conscience. A wandering politician like Tambuwal lacks the moral turpitude to comment on the intentions of politicians who have defected from a crisis-ridden PDP to our great Party,” Morka declared.

The APC defended its stance by highlighting the positive developments under President Bola Tinubu’s administration as a reason for the defections.

“Contrary to Tambuwal’s jibe, members of the PDP are joining APC, ostensibly, to identify with President Bola Tinubu’s bold economic reform agenda in the face of growing and undeniable positive indications of a resurgent Nigeria.

“Many of the defectors have offered this as the raison d’etre for their defection, quite apart from the fact that the PDP is in a state of bedlam, and is now an unrecognizable shadow of its old self,” he stated.

The statement went on to cite economic achievements under the current administration, including surpassing the OPEC quota for oil production, consistent trade surpluses, increased foreign direct investments, and a high-yielding stock market.

The APC therefore called on Tambuwal and other PDP leaders to take responsibility for the internal issues within their party.

“Instead of begrudging citizens for exercising their fundamental freedom of association, Tambuwal and fellow political villains, like former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, should accept responsibility for the political carnage in the PDP, apologize to their members and maintain a humble and penitent disposition going forward,” the APC stated.