Those defecting to APC have their sins forgiven – Abba Moro

Also, all members of the PDP in the House of Representatives
from Delta State defected to the APC.

In the same vein, three PDP senators from Kebbi State
defected to the APC.

Reacting, Moro, the Benue South senator, said soon people
would know the reason for the mass defections from PDP to APC.

In an interview with AIT Focus Nigeria, Moro said: “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.

“It has always been the practice though, people don’t want
to stay outside the corridors of power and so they quickly begin to realize
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 Mets the eyes
to moving 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 this 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?

“Where have principles taken flight to? Where has value
taken flight to? You were elected on the platform of a political party and as
the Supreme Court ruled, its political parties that people vote for, then you
suddenly decide that you want to move to another political party which is
predicated on the nebulous excuse that you are doing that in the interest of
your constituency.”