The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Felix Morka, has described former presidential candidates Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as “unserious politicians” over their repeated movement between political parties.
Mr Morka made the remarks on Monday while speaking on The Morning Brief, a Channels Television programme, in reaction to the defection of Obi and Kwankwaso from the African Democratic Congress, ADC, to the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC.
The APC spokesman dismissed claims that the ruling party was behind the internal crises rocking opposition parties, insisting that opposition figures were responsible for their own political troubles.
According to him, the recent developments within the ADC had nothing to do with the APC.
“The narrative has been that the APC is responsible for all of the turmoil we have witnessed in the opposition parties. Are we now to also suggest that these events that played out in the last 48 hours were also engineered by the APC?” Morka asked.
“Maybe someone would actually do that with a bold face to say that maybe the APC did something to cause Peter Obi and Kwankwaso to abandon the ADC into their new party.”
He accused the opposition leaders of moving from one political platform to another in search of easier routes to secure presidential tickets.
“These fellows are very unserious, and I don’t know how anyone takes them that seriously,” he said.
“These are opposition figures who ought to be concerned about enacting a blueprint for an alternative vision of governance in this country. Instead, they are busy running from pillar to post looking for a cheap, inexpensive, maybe even free platform to offer them the presidential ticket on a platter of gold.”
Mr Morka further argued that both politicians had shown a consistent pattern of abandoning political parties whenever internal disagreements arose.
According to him, Obi had previously criticised politicians who frequently defect from one party to another, but has now become part of what he described as “nomadic movement” in Nigerian politics.
He maintained that such a political pattern raises questions about leadership and crisis-management capacity for anyone aspiring to lead the country.
The APC spokesman also described the crisis within the ADC as self-inflicted, insisting that the ruling party had no reason to interfere in the affairs of the opposition.
“We don’t need to create problems for the ADC. The party was already a self-prepared grenade waiting to explode because of irreconcilable ambitions among its members,” he said.
Mr Morka added that despite criticism from opposition parties, Nigeria was making progress under the APC-led administration.
