PDP Spokesman Accuses APC of Forcing Governors, Members to Defect

The All Progressives Congress (APC), according to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was forcing its members—particularly serving governors—to join the ruling party through anti-democratic tactics like blackmail and deceit.

The PDP further charged that the APC government, led by President Bola Tinubu, was destroying the opposition in order to impose a one-party system on the nation.

In response to assertions made by Bashir Ahmad, a former assistant to former President Muhammadu Buhari, that two PDP governors will defect to the APC within the next few days, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP’s national publicity secretary, made these accusations on Thursday.

He claimed that the majority of the defections were the result of force, harassment, inducement, and intimidation rather than voluntary choice.

The governor of Taraba State and another governor from the North West would formally defect to the APC within a few days, Ahmad had stated in a post on X on October 7.

According to the PDP spokeswoman, who maintained that such forced defections would not continue, the party was larger than its individual members and that while some members left, others joined.

“A party is about everyone, not just about individuals. Today’s PDP workforce is becoming increasingly diversified. Because the PDP is reorganizing, more and more people are joining it again.

He declared, “Inducement, harassment, coercion, and intimidation are the driving forces behind the defections you see today, and I can guarantee that they won’t last.”