Abba Moro, Senate Minority Leader, says politicians defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) are individuals who embezzled public funds and are now seeking political forgiveness.
The senator, who represents Benue south, spoke on Thursday during an interview on AIT’s Focus Nigeria.
“When history unfolds, we are going to have the privilege of knowing the main reasons why people are moving from PDP to the ruling party,” Moro said.
“It has always been the practice, though; people don’t want to stay outside the corridors of power, and so they quickly begin to realise that in the opposition, they won’t be getting as much as they want to get.
“Some of them who have been helmsmen at their various levels in the states, LGs, and senate certainly have more reasons than meet the eye to move to the ruling party.
“Don’t forget that a chieftain of the APC at one point said, if you move from your party to the APC, your sins are forgiven – so given the antecedents of some of the characters that are moving now – you can only conclude that they are only attesting to these assertions.
“They have sins and are looking for forgiveness, politically; these displaced persons may be going to the ruling party to ask for forgiveness, but is it in the interest of this country?
“Is it in the interest of democracy? Is it in the interest of the political development of this country that people continue to move from one political platform to the other?
