Ken Nnamani, Former Senate President of Nigeria has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) like bad habit for the All Progressives Congress (APC). He gave his reasons for joining APC… “I like to identify with potential winners, if that makes me an opportunist, so be it because PDP is dead.”

“In the politics of our nation, if you look carefully and read between the lines, you will not ask somebody who is on his way back from the market to buy something for you, such a person will not get anything for you; but if you ask somebody who is on his way to the market to buy something for you, he is more likely to get it for you. I noticed that the APC has all it takes, but it is not perfect yet. We will join hands to make it near perfect.”

“I am acting according to my conscience; many people will criticise me that I am abandoning a party that helped me to attain a high level politically.  February 6, 2016, was the day I left the PDP and went into political sabbatical. Nigeria’s constitution does not allow independent candidates; so, I cannot remain ‘partyless’. Now that change is going on in the country, one cannot remain rigid.”

“The South-East has a role to play in our nation; we can’t play that role from outside. We have to be inside to play our role in Nigeria. Even if we want to ask that imbalances in the country should be corrected, we have to ask for that from inside. You cannot stay outside to criticise; it is not about being confrontational. I am not condemning any party or anybody, but since you cannot be an independent candidate, you have to join a political party, even if it is not yet perfect.”

“But then, even those who stayed 16 years in power could not achieve perfection; so, we have a better chance to support a party we can help and build to achieve perfection. I am not hiding it that I want to identify with the APC, and I will do that boldly. In time, I will tell my supporters that this is where the road is. Don’t play the role of the APC in the day and the PDP at night; you should not join the APC because you are running from one tribunal or the other.”

“I encourage others to register; you have no reason to block anybody from registering, even if you don’t like his face. A party is as strong as the members. In a church, if the membership is going down, a good church administrator will encourage new members so that he can get more tithe.”