The opposition All Progressives Congress, APC has claimed that the new decampees its received from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are now changed people.
APC stated this through its Assistant State Publicity Secretary, Funsho Ologunde, in a breakfast television show (Sunrise) monitored in Lagos.
Ologunde was reacting to allegations from some critics who argued that the party is no different from the Peoples Democratic Party it criticises based on its open arm policy to former members of the ruling party.
He contended that his party, All Progressive Congress is not bird of the same feathers because PDP represents power (and indirectly, impunity) while APC preaches change.
He continued , “In the game of politics, there are no permanent friends.” The fact that some people have been in the PDP, working against the interest of the country, does not mean they cannot be converted.
He claimed that the process of conversion was not overnight and that the gospel of the APC to the decampees was that their continued stay in the PDP was a hindrance to the progress of the nation.
Meanwhile, PDP Chieftain, Segun Ogundimu, in his reaction said the position of the PDP is that the “mass defection (will lead to) mass confusion in the APC.” He also denied that those who decamped were being oppressed by the leadership and accused them of being over ambitious.
