The Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio has disclosed that President Bola Tinubu is interested in seeing a vibrant opposition, urging the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to quickly resolve its leadership crises.
Akpabio stated this in Abuja on Wednesday, during the inauguration of the newly constructed Interchange that linked Wole Soyinka Way (Arterial Road N20) to Murtala Mohammed Expressway in Abuja.
The senate president, who represented Tinubu at the event, stressed the need for opposition parties, including the Labour Party (LP) to reorganise their parties to play active roles of the oppositions.
“However, you people got yourselves into this confusion, try and get yourself out of it very quickly because President Bola Tinubu is interested in seeing a vibrant opposition.
“As a true democrat, we would like to see a very vibrant opposition in the country. It saddens Tinubu when he sees the way the opposition in Nigeria is in disarray,” he said.
Akpabio disclosed that he received and read a letter a defector from the LP, adding that it was not only PDP that was in disarray.
“Even the LP is cracked and people who are strong members of the party are angling to rule Nigeria when they cannot put a small political party like that in order,” he said.
“Sen. Neda Imasuen representing Edo South Senatorial District in the Senate just defected this afternoon from the LP and moved from the left-hand side of the Senate to the right-hand side.
“I had to do that ritual. I’m not tired. I’m happy to receive them because our doors are open in the All Progressive Congress (APC).
“So, congratulations to Imasuen, who has decided to leave the fractured LP to join the APC,” Akpabio said.
Earlier, FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, faulted the PDP’s directive that the party’s National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu should resume duty.
Recall the acting National Chairman of the party, Umar Damagum, in a news conference announced the reinstatement of Anyanwu as its national secretary.
Wike, who faulted the directive, argued that Anyanwu had been doing his work, stressing that it was wrong for the party chairman to ask him to resume.
“The National Secretary has been working and will continue to work. He doesn’t require anybody to direct him to resume work,” he said.
The minister, who attributed the development to ignorance of the law, said that he would not be a party to those who shoot themselves on the foot.