You don’t have the moral right of talking about defection

The former governor of the state of the delta, Ifeanyi Okowo, said that the former president of the Senate Bukola Saraki had no “moral right” to criticize his decision to leave the Democratic Party Peoplrs, PDP, for the Congress All Progressives, APC.

On Monday, the main parties interested in political state in the state of the delta, including the sheriff of the governor Oborevwori, his predecessor, Okowo and the appointed politicians in the state, officially decamps themselves at the Congress of All Progressives.

Saraki had said that the move of the former governor was “unprecedented” and symptomatic of a deepest leadership crisis considering that Okowo was the vice presidential candidate of the PDP in 2023.

“He is shocking and inconvenient. It is simply a sign of what we have sunk as a politics,” said Saraki.

Reacting, Okowa, while the Morning Show of Arise Television spoke on Tuesday, said he did not expect someone like Saraki to comment on his decision to move to another political party.

Okowa said Saraki did not have the moral right to comment on the decamp because he too had once abandoned the PDP for the APC.

“I didn’t expect someone like Senator Bukola Saraki to be able to speak for me, because he knows that he had also moved to APC before and in the end he returned. So he had a movement back and forth. So, I don’t think he has the moral right of talking also about my defection,” said Okow.

He underlined that the storm of defection in the state of the delta was a collective decision of all the parties concerned political in the state -rich state, adding that their decision as Decamp was motivated by the persistent crisis in the PDP.

According to him, the recent communication of the party leadership showed that the party was not the real political vehicle for the Delta State in view of the 2027 elections.

“Several things went on to the party. Even if I do not want to join the problems with people, as stakeholders, our leaders in this state have situated to look at the events in recent months and, due to the events we see and the communications that come out of the leadership of the PDP at the moment, it has not appeared that there has not been a political vehicle for us to continue”

Okowa said that the refusal of the governors of the PDP of a coalition combined with the leadership crisis in the party suggested that the opposition party was not ready for competition.