Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki has today announced his defection from the All Progressives Congress, APC. The announcement came this evening on his Twitter Handle where the Senate President released a statement. You would recall that earlier today, the APC sacked all executives of its Kwara State chapter in an attempt to wrestle the state structure away from Saraki.

Releasing a statement to his defection Saraki stated that the APC is neither currently structured nor has the resolve and ability to deliver on its mandate of change. The Senate President added that Nigeria can not afford another 4 years of the APC’s ineptitude and also lamented that party had become fractured and divided.

Bukola Saraki also lamented the apparent lack of transparency and accountability that had befallen the party. In a statement released on his official handles he says “…External
influences have become overbearing on the party organs. Some members are treated like outsiders. A Party that does not have internal democracy cannot deliver a government that will adhere to democratic principles.
The APC has failed to learn from history and has squandered the goodwill of the Nigerian people, on whose backs they came into Government…”

Announcing his defection, Saraki says it was not an easy decision but a decision taken with all sense of duty and patriotism.

Saraki announced his decision to rejoin the People’s Democratic Party citing that the new leadership of the Party had demonstrated that they had learned from the mistakes they made in the past which made him to leave 4 years ago.

Meanwhile, Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed and APC National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi have also announced their defection from the APC to PDP following Saraki’s well received announcement.