Nigeria’s opposition party chieftain Showunmi, graced book launch in Abuja, decries party defections
Nigeria
A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party and National Coordinator of The Alternative Movement, Otunba Segun Showunmi, yesterday graced a public presentation of two books written by a senior Journalist, Mr Ike Abonyi.
One of the books, ‘Wadata Wonders: Memoirs of a Partisan Journalist,’ was titled after the building housing the PDP national secretariat.
Speaking at the event, Showunmi wondered why politicians defects from one political party to another just for personal political gains.
He said those who jump from party to party are the same ones saying how come parties are not like those strong political parties built in South Africa.
According to him: “For a sustainable political party to be built, you have to have an enduring discipline. You cannot be the one who hub from one platform to another and still be the one who wonders why political parties cannot be sustained”, he said.
The crusader of the National Opposition Movement Coalition (NOMC), urged Nigerians to pray for politicians who do not have political ideology. “Look in the mirror you might see the problem. Their hypocrisy stinks to high heaven”, he added.
The event, which was held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, witnessed the attendance of several PDP personalities and other politicians, our correspondent reports.
The PDP heavy weights in attendance includes former PDP presidential aspirant, Alhaji Mohammed Hayatu-Deen; the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum and Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, who was represented by the Director-General, Mr Emmanuel Agbo; and former Minister of Information, Chief John Nwodo.
Nwodo, who delivered the keynote at the occasion, spoke on the topic, “How Did We Get Here?”, an ex-ray of Nigeria’s political and democratic governance process to date.
