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DEFECTIONS OF TOP POLITICIANS

1 Bola Tinubu: AD ➡ ACN ➡ APC
2 Kashim Shettima: ANPP ➡ APC
3 Muhammadu Buhari: ANPP ➡ CPC ➡ APC
4 George Akume: PDP ➡ ACN ➡ APC
5 Atiku Abubakar: PDP ➡ ACN ➡ PDP ➡️ APC ➡ PDP
6 Peter Obi: APGA ➡ PDP ➡ LP
7 Rabiu Kwankwaso: PDP ➡ APC ➡ PDP ➡ NNPP
8 Aminu Tambuwal: ANPP ➡ DPP ➡ ANPP ➡ PDP ➡ APC ➡ PDP
9 Godswill Akpabio: PDP ➡ APC
10 Bukola Saraki: PDP ➡ APC ➡ PDP
11 Rotimi Amaechi: PDP ➡ APC
12 Nasir El-Rufai: PDP ➡ CPC ➡ APC ➡ SDP
13 Bello Matawalle: ANPP ➡ PDP ➡ APC
14 Sheriff Oborevwori: PDP ➡ APC
15 Ifeanyi Okowa: PDP ➡ APC
16 Gbenga Daniel: PDP ➡ APC
17 David Umahi: PDP ➡ APC
18 Godwin Obaseki: APC ➡ PDP
19 Benedict Ayade: PDP ➡ APC
20 Femi Fani-Kayode: PDP ➡ APC ➡ PDP ➡ APC
21 Orji Uzor Kalu: PDP ➡ PPA ➡ PDP ➡ PPA ➡ APC
22 Nuhu Ribadu: ACN ➡ APC ➡ PDP ➡ APC
23 Peter Nwaoboshi: PDP ➡ APC
24 Rita Maduagwu: PDP ➡ APGA ➡ APC

#Statisense

BATists will hail BAT for never defecting & very often attribute his political success to this singular act. Atiku's defection is always a bad political decision.. Now,politicians defecting to APC, are being told they're making the smartest political decision of their lives

BAT sabi politics sha.

Antoeni:
BATists will hail BAT for never defecting & very often attribute his political success to this singular act. Atiku's defection is always a bad political decision.. Now,politicians defecting to APC, are being told they're making the smartest political decision of their lives

The hypocrisy in some of you Obidients is top notch

Is FFK One Of The Nigerian Top Politicians As How?

Defection, as used by StatiSense, in this analysis is incorrect.

What is defection? It is desertion of one's country or cause (or party, in this case) in favour of an opposing (existing) one.

Tinubu has not defected to another existing party since 1999.

He was with the Alliance for Democracy (AD) from 1999 to 2007, helped form the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2006, and was key in merging parties to create the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2013. And the moment APC was formed, ACN (just like CPC) became defunct.

These transitions were due to party formations and mergers, not traditional defections. The sequence AD to ACN to APC is accurate but reflects new party creations rather than joining existing.

As it is Now.
The political parties have no Ideology just names….They stand for Nothing…

No Party stands against Terrorism
No party stands against Poverty
No party stands against Corruption

Af0nja2:
Defection, as used by StatiSense, in this analysis is incorrect.

What is defection? It is desertion of one's country or cause (or party, in this case) in favour of an opposing (existing) one.

Tinubu has not defected to another existing party since 1999.

He was with the Alliance for Democracy (AD) from 1999 to 2007, helped form the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2006, and was key in merging parties to create the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2013. And the moment APC was formed, ACN (just like CPC) became defunct.

These transitions were due to party formations and mergers, not traditional defections. The sequence AD to ACN to APC is accurate but reflects new party creations rather than joining existing.

I was expecting a comment like this to defend Tinubu.

He left AD when there was leadership tussle between Bisi Akande and Moji Akinfenwa. Bisi Akande, Tinubu and others that left went on to form AC which later changed to ACN.
ACN merged with CPC and others to birth APC.

AD exists to this day.

Ahhh, so be Peter Obi as una de claim

Sheuns:
I was expecting a comment like this to defend Tinubu.

He left AD when there was leadership tussle between Bisi Akande and Moji Akinfenwa. Bisi Akande, Tinubu and others that left went on to form AC which later changed to ACN.
ACN merged with CPC and others to birth APC.

AD exists to this day.

Apt.

If there's no AD existence now, it would have been different. Why is he not in AD?

This endless cycle of defections isn’t just political strategy—it’s a symptom of ideological bankruptcy. When power becomes the only consistent value, governance turns into a game of personal survival rather than public service. Until political ideology matters, the people will always lose.

helinues:
The hypocrisy in some of you Obidients is top notch

You guys keep saying that Obi defected, but don't say that Obi never defected while holding a mandate he won in another party

gidgiddy:
You guys keep saying that Obi defected, but don't say that Obi never defected while holding a mandate he won in another party

Learn how to argue

Your comments is empty

Tinubu's case is different because he formed Action Congress from a faction of AD and later Action Congress of Nigeria as another faction of AC before merging ACN with CPC to form APC.

This here is why Tinubu's case is different because he never defected alone but carved out his own faction from the NADECO AD and from there had a split with some of those he formed AC from AD and then took his loyalists to form ACN.

If you check well, Tinubu has never defected on his own to another party. Rather , he has been creating his own party from AD up till present APC which he now holds supreme.

It's a lesson that all politicians like the wandering duo of Atiku and Giringory seem not to get.

You don't defect from one party to another already pre-existing party .

You build your structure within a party and if you are not having your way, you take your loyalists out and form your own .

So , technically, Tinubu has never defected but rather he has been creating his own platform.

Hate him all you like. I myself was never a fan of Tinubu but you should admire his tenacity and his doggedness plus his ability to rally a following behind him and form a political structure.

The likes of Atiku and Giringory have never built any party from scratch but are mere opportunists who seek existing platforms to use as SPVs

That's why Atiku is now wandering from PDP to SDP and Giringory has successfully squandered the following he had in LP.

Truth hurts

You can hate the game but not the player. Tinubu is showing you in real time how a party stalwart must act and lead.

Even Buhari that enjoyed mass support in the north is bereft and incapable of doing what Tinubu has done over the years.

The CPC faction are learning how a real party leader is supposed to act and lead unlike when the mannequin Buhari was in power.

Af0nja2:
Defection, as used by StatiSense, in this analysis is incorrect.

What is defection? It is desertion of one's country or cause (or party, in this case) in favour of an opposing (existing) one.

Tinubu has not defected to another existing party since 1999.

He was with the Alliance for Democracy (AD) from 1999 to 2007, helped form the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2006, and was key in merging parties to create the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2013. And the moment APC was formed, ACN (just like CPC) became defunct.

These transitions were due to party formations and mergers, not traditional defections. The sequence AD to ACN to APC is accurate but reflects new party creations rather than joining existing.

Not everyone has stolen so much to form a new party.

Sheuns:
I was expecting a comment like this to defend Tinubu.

He left AD when there was leadership tussle between Bisi Akande and Moji Akinfenwa. Bisi Akande, Tinubu and others that left went on to form AC which later changed to ACN.
ACN merged with CPC and others to birth APC.

AD exists to this day.

Just give us a news or picture of people receiving TINUBU into a new party!


He always form a new party ni

Shut Up

helinues:
The hypocrisy in some of you Obidients is top notch

Just give us a picture or news of people receiving TINUBU into a new party.


Also if you have never been in PDP since 1999 you must be a very disciplined politician!

Greedy Men of Double Standards

Sheuns:
I was expecting a comment like this to defend Tinubu.

He left AD when there was leadership tussle between Bisi Akande and Moji Akinfenwa. Bisi Akande, Tinubu and others that left went on to form AC which later changed to ACN.
ACN merged with CPC and others to birth APC.

AD exists to this day.

Even with what you said, he still didn’t defect..

Leaving a party to form your own political party isn’t defection.

You leave Pdp today then join Apc, that’s defection..

You leave Pdp today then you form your own newly political party, that’s different from defection..