Former minister of works and PDP chieftain, Sen. Adeseye Ogunlewe has said the ruling People’s Democratic Party should be worried over the defection of the speaker House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal to the All Progressive Congress (APC).

Ogunlewe who stressed this while speaking in an interview with Chamberlain and Suleiman on Channels TV Sunrise daily program this morning said defection was strategic and timely.

“How can PDP say they are not worried that the leader of the House of Representatives is a member of the opposition? They should be worried. Tambuwal’s defection is strategic and the timing is also accurate. They (APC) control things in that house now and the PDP members will have to go to them before they can get things done.” – Sen. Ogunlewe

Adeseye Ogunlewe was elected Senator under the platform of Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 1999 for Lagos East constituency. He later defected to the PDP and contested for re-election under the same constituency but was defeated by Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora. He later became the Minister of Works from July 2003 to March 2006.

Aminu tambuwal announced his defection to the APC on Tuesday, days after a rumour of his defection was denied by his spokesman, Mr. Imam Imam. He said his defection was because of his political future and the political consideration of his state.

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TANDroids run on feudal petrol and ethnocentric diesel hence the reason they can never comprehend that the defection of Tambuwal is a big loss for the PDP as I told them it would be for many strategic reasons. This development resonates loudly home and abroad and sends out messages the ruling Party is weak, disunited and uncoordinated. The PDP hosts many,many powerful 'enemies within' who are seriously disgruntled with the dictatorial way a ruling cabal has broken promises, ruined erstwhile gentlemen's arrangement that had served the Party well, heightened treachery and disloyalty, disenfranchised others, promoted infighting and monopolised power completely. Many are waiting for the right time to stab their own Party in the back and weaken it fatally, leaving the ruling Party no time to recover from it's 'wound', before the general election.

Beyond the noise and the current feudalistic politics many of the PDP fans have mired themselves in, it is a big blow for any Party worldwide to lose its number 4 citizen (after the President, VP and Senate President) to an opposition Party not even two years old and predicted to not last a year by the ruling Party. Putting aside sentiments, Tambuwal's defection show how weak, dishevelled, discombobulated and fractured the ruling Party really is. It is now obvious to the world that most PDP members are not tied to the Party by ideological belief but by an abiding interest in their own stomach infrastructure. This is perhaps permissible for a Party seeking power but not for a ruling Party with 16 years of unchallenged monopoly of the Nigerian centre behind it. The PDP , if it were an effective political entity, should ideally be popular and able to retain the loyalty and patronage of its influential members given how long the Party has controlled Nigeria at the centre . It beats me how some Nigerians fail to get this very important point.

So far, non of the predictions of the PDP for the APC has come to pass. If anything, the APC continues to wax stronger making the PDP to appear a terminally ill entity now completely reliant on inducing and coercing support/endorsement. Some of us say things here that most Nigerians do not have the maturity or pragmatism to accept and I will deliver another prediction here. This is only the beginning, in my opinion, of what is a strategic plan to emasculate a PDP now completely hijacked by power-drunk and sit-tight elements. Momentum will slip away from the PDP while the APC will gain more traction, acceptability and wide backing locally and internationally.

Senator ogunlewe is right. PDP should really worry!

Femolacaster:
Senator ogunlewe is right. PDP should really worry!

No need to advice them. They already are as evidenced by the idiotic withdrawal of his security, which simply creates a dangerous precedent (GEJ'S security as a former head of state can be withdrawn in the future and he will have no moral right to demand it) and the quick noise that it means nothing to them (why react if it means nothing)