APC chieftain Farouk Aliyu has alleged that the ruling party’s aggressive recruitment of opposition figures is not a plan to create a one-party state, but a calculated political response to what he described as poaching that the opposition started first.
Speaking in an interview with Channels TV, Aliyu said, “We are not trying to create a one-party state. But if you look at what happened from the beginning, this kind of poaching was started by the opposition. And Nigerians will remember very well how some heavyweights in our movement — the El-Rufais of this world, the Malamis of this world, the Ameachis of this world — all of them were poached from us. So we had to think: what do we do? You take El-Rufai, we take Sheriff of Delta. You take Malami, we take Dauda Lawal. That kind of thing. So it is political strategy,” he said.
Aliyu also stated that he felt genuine concern about the state of the opposition, drawing on his own experience as a former opposition figure who helped push the PDP out of power.
He insisted that the APC had simply played the same game it was taught, and that if opposition politicians were choosing to cross the aisle of their own volition, the ruling party could not be blamed for welcoming them…..See More
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