A former lawmaker in the House of Representatives, Ossai Nicholas Ossai, has dumped the People’s Democratic Party for the ruling All Progressives Congress.
Ossai, who represented Ndokwa/Ukwuani Federal Constituency in Delta State under the PDP in the 9th Assembly, attributed his defection to the ongoing crisis in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Speaking at a press conference at the National Assembly in Abuja, Ossai said attempts to restore unity in the PDP failed, due to deep-seated ideological and political conflicts.
He described the situation as a clash of opposing views, making reconciliation nearly impossible.
“I have been with the PDP since 1999, and we have tried as much as possible to fix PDP, especially when they have issues of leadership in the past. The National Assembly, who are PDP members tried to strengthen PDP, but I believe today that strengthening has been removed from the hands of the Parliament.
“Judging from the fact that all political parties in Nigeria are centralists in programmes and policies, there’s no sharp ideological programs that you can say you can separate from each political party today in the country.” Ossai said.
Speaking on why he joined the APC, Ossai said that “President Bola Tinubu is a man with focus and so he wants to assist in navigating Nigeria into the next promise land.
“People want solution and it is the person who will give solution to the people that you have to converge on. APC gives solution through President Tinubu to the people. That’s why we are converging. Tinubu is the personality that is bringing progressive directions to this generation. So we converge on him.
“We need people who are great leaders, who champion policies that can navigate the country to the promised land. We have had some strong leaders before who could not do it, but today we have a very strong leader that I believe in and that leader is Asiwaju Tinubu.
“His policies align with mine. You will see the recent program that President Tinubu has been churning out. You can see what is going on in terms of infrastructure development in different places that have been abandoned over the years.
“You can also see policies on agriculture, where all APC governors are gearing towards agricultural revolution. And you can see that inflationary rate has dropped in terms of food in the market.
“So, I have come to join APC to assist in navigating Nigeria into the next promised land” Ossai said.
