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Political realignment is not betrayal; it is the courage to follow vision when old paths can no longer carry the dream.

VIDEO: Ex-Enugu governors Sullivan Chime, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, and former senate president Ken Nnamani present as Peter Mbah officially joins APC


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4qBe9wTr7w?si=MgP8uCBZw279cKm7

VIDEO: Ex-Enugu governors Sullivan Chime, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, and former senate president Ken Nnamani present as Peter Mbah officially joins APC pic.twitter.com/mno8GUMWbp

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AntiChristian:
APC is getting weaker and weaker till they win in 2027!

What an irony!

creativejagaban:
Go and find your medication 💊 oooo.

The ship has already sailed.

Start preparing for 2031.

Wailing will not do you any good. Ask raccoon about his constant headaches on top Tinubu
matter.

Sheuns:
Only in Nigeria will someone will get elected using a political party loved by his people and mid way move to another party all in the name of “realignment” and “connecting with the center” and they’ll claim it’s for their people?

payloader:
In the United States, you hardly see a Democrat decamping to Republican. It's only in Nigeria I see political prostitution at it's nasty zenith. Imagine this betrayer calling it political alignment. Using semantics will not diminish the meaning of political prostitution.

payloader:
In the United States, you hardly see a Democrat decamping to Republican. It's only in Nigeria I see political prostitution at it's nasty zenith. Imagine this betrayer calling it political alignment. Using semantics will not diminish the meaning of political prostitution.

naptu2:
Why do people keep acting as if it's only in Nigeria that politicians change parties?

Ronald Reagan started out as a Democrat. It was his wife that convinced him to become a Republican and he became one of the greatest Republican presidents ever.


The godfather of Chicago, Richard Daley, won his first election on the platform of the Republican Party. He wasn't republican, but that was the only platform that he could contest under. He switched back to the Democratic Party shortly afterwards and became one of the most powerful democratic politicians. He served as mayor of Chicago for 21 years on the platform of the Democratic Party, he had a big say on who won elections in both the Democratic Party and Chicago in general and his children served in major positions in democratic administrations like the Carter, Clinton and Obama presidencies. One of his children also served as mayor of Chicago on the Democratic Party platform.


The great William Ewart Gladstone (one of the greatest British prime ministers) changed parties three times!

Of course we saw that many British MPs changed parties ahead of the last British general elections (some of the people that left the Conservative Party are still trying to go back to it).

naptu2:
As I said, Nigeria is not the only country in which politicians defect. It happens everywhere and some of the most famous politicians have crossed the carpet (think about it, the term "crossing the carpet" did not originate in Nigeria).

I have previously posted a long list of foreign politicians that have changed parties, but let me remind you of 2.

Richard Daley always sympathised with the Democratic Party, but he registered as a Republican when he was in university, because the Republican Party was awarding scholarships. He was in the Republican Party for years, but he eventually switched to the Democratic Party. Richard Daley eventually became the Mayor of Chicago. He was the godfather of Chicago and the people that he supported always won elections in the city. One of his children eventually became Mayor of Chicago and his children served in the Clinton and Obama Admimistrations.


President Ronald Reagan was initially a Democrat. It was his wife, Nancy, that convinced him to become a Republican. He became one of the most famous and popular Republican presidents ever.


A British politician who is in charge of policing in a local government has defected from the Conservative Party to the Reform Party.

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[quote author=naptu2 post=136816595]Another day, another defection. A former health minister in the UK has defected from the Conservative Party to the Reform Party.

BREAKING: Former Tory health minister Maria Caulfield defects to Reform UK.

Danny Kruger became the first sitting Conservative MP to defect to Reform just yesterday.https://t.co/lQ5OmH5mMQ

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EponObi:
All the developments, revenues brought to Enugu state within the last 2-3 years, shey na party bring am? Abi does Peter Mbah stops being Peter Mbah now that he switched to the APC?

Abi Obidents no dey always talk say they will follow Peter Obi wherever he goes? They also always say that they voted Obi in 2023 and not LP. Why does Obi gets a free pass for jumping party anyhow and you want to crucify other politicians for doing so? WHY?!

In the SE, LP and Otti are the most beloved because of his affiliation with Obi but Otti hasn't done for Abia 10% of what Peter Mbah has done for Enugu. Make una dey reason now!

Na Peter Mbah Enugu citizens voted for in 2023; not PDP and it won't be APC in 2027 - it will be Mbah, deservingly, because of his solid works.

ChiefOloye:
AMINDA said the North will teach Tinubu a lesson he will never forget, in 2027. So we are waiting for the lesson.

AMINDA:
Not just the North, even the South. He didn't win the South in 2023 and he wouldn't win it in 2027. The North made him President. If the defections were that consequential, there would be jubilation across the South. Rather, all we see is resignation and despair with no momentum but joy is coming.

AMINDA:
Not just the North, even the South. He didn't win the South in 2023 and he wouldn't win it in 2027. The North made him President. If the defections were that consequential, there would be jubilation across the South. Rather, all we see is resignation and despair with no momentum but joy is coming.

ChiefOloye:
The President's game plan is not complex, he knows the North being who they're, don't have the patient or comraderie to wait for 8 years without power, (thank God the South are understanding that now.) So they may not vote him in 2027, the way they did in 2023. (Mind you, they voted him in 2023, not because they love him, but because they thought he would die, so that Shettima will succeed him and perhaps the Muslim Muslim ticket too.) Hence, he's courting as many Southern strong politicians he can, so they can help gather figures in 2027, to counter whatever figures the North will concort. Meanwhile, please know that no State will return 10 million votes like it happened in 2015, also the ongoing voter's registration is also another way he's telling the North that ogoro will cancel ogoro. If 20 votes are registered in Kano, 20 votes will be registered in Osun too, so it will be rigging for rigging, State forces and the decamping Governors will support his rigging. Whoever wants to be insane can only express the insanity in their regions.

AMINDA:
Okay. Noted. Just tell Tinubu to do all he can to win the entire South in a landslide. With what we have seen so far, only the politicians are defecting while the electorates are feeling betrayed. Tinubu will find it harder to rig in the South if that continues. Okphebolo having to force his kitchen cabinet and commissioners to wear the cap with the slave chain insignia is not good optics and tells an alternate story. Winning 4 SW states in the whole South like he did in 2023 will not be enough to see him through in 2027. He should also be wary of the "Greek Gift".

ChiefOloye:
In Nigerian politics and elections, politicians are more important than the electorates/voters. It is who the politicians want to vote that will vote, I'm not a baby, the only region I've not witnessed voting/elections in Nigeria are the South East and North East, (I'm sure they can't be totally different from the places I witnessed) elections in Nigeria are not won by transparent votes, people buy votes, suppress vote, intimidate voters, all in bids to to "win". The President has the forces and the resources to deploy,in order to achieve this.