{"id":19989,"date":"2018-08-09T19:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=19989"},"modified":"2018-08-09T19:16:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:16:03","slug":"defections-expose-nigerian-politicians-hypocrisy-and-shamelessness-by-chidiebere-nwobodo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=19989","title":{"rendered":"DEFECTIONS EXPOSE NIGERIAN POLITICIANS HYPOCRISY AND SHAMELESSNESS BY Chidiebere Nwobodo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no longer news that Sen. Godwill Akpabio has left the PDP for APC. As<br \/>\nsurprising and perverse the decision may be,\u00a0 as democrats, we don&#8217;t have<br \/>\nany option but to respect his fundamental right of association and<br \/>\nexpression, as enshrined in the constitution. I will not call Sen. Akpabio<br \/>\na &#8220;looter&#8221; simply because he left PDP for a fractured and demystified APC,<br \/>\nexactly the stereotypical manner a Buharist would have reacted, had it been<br \/>\nthe opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Those Buharists who have been threatening fire and fury against Senate<br \/>\nPresident Bukola Saraki and his fellow defectors, are yet to raise their<br \/>\nvoices against this development. They have not told us again how &#8220;illegal&#8221;<br \/>\nand &#8220;unprincipled&#8221; for a senator to abandon the party that brought him to<br \/>\noffice and transfer the mandate to his new party.<\/p>\n<p>The human &#8220;rice&#8221; activist and legal face of APC, Femi Falana has maintained<br \/>\nhypocritical silence, because this one favoured APC. The ugly whore and<br \/>\ndemented buffoon in the Villa called Lauretta Onochie, who has ridiculed<br \/>\nthe office of the president by her crude utterances, unbefitting of her<br \/>\noffice, is yet to &#8220;list the sins&#8221; of Sen. Akpabio, like she did against<br \/>\nSaraki. Adams Oshiomhole had suddenly gone mute, and also suffered partial<br \/>\namnesia, that made him forgot that a senator &#8220;cannot take a crown that<br \/>\nbelongs a family to another&#8221;, as he shamelessly stated against Saraki. The<br \/>\nold nincompoop called Sen. Abdullahi Adamu is yet to disturb our peace<br \/>\nagain, on why &#8220;Akpabio must face the consequences of his wrong decision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Like a moonlight story, scripted to reflect the world of fantasy, the<br \/>\n&#8220;saintly&#8221; party called APC, condescended so low to the extent of coming to<br \/>\nthe dens of &#8220;looters&#8221; to woo one of its &#8220;gang&#8221; leaders, to join them in the<br \/>\n&#8220;sanctuary of the righteous&#8221;. What an irony! Sen. Akpabio has given his<br \/>\nlife (defection) to Christ (APC). He is a &#8220;new creature&#8221; (APC member) and<br \/>\nold things (corruption charges), have all passed away! He has been baptised<br \/>\nby John De Baptist (Bola Ahmed Tinubu), and has been given a new garment of<br \/>\n&#8220;integrity&#8221; by no other person but custodian of it called Mohammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=16796&amp;ad_type=62&amp;rl=180\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>By virtue of being &#8220;born again&#8221; (APC member), god of APC&#8212;President Buhari<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>has redeemed Sen. Akpabio of all his sins and that of his forefathers.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ancestral curses have no hold on Sen. Akpabio again as a result of mark of<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>holiness (broom), in front of his abode. Even his potential iniquities have<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>all been forgiven in advance. PDP members have taken solace in their new<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>found members, who came back from a wild goose chase in the wilderness,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>like the proverbial prodigal sons that wasted their fathers wealth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The returnees confessed they thought that they were running from snakes in<br \/>\nPDP, but ended up in the coven masked as the APC, where venomous Pythons,<br \/>\ncobras, anacondas, scorpions and crocodiles were bitting and stinging each<br \/>\nother to death. They realized that they went into unholy alliance with<br \/>\nsadists, tyrants, ethno-religious bigots, death merchants and<br \/>\nmegalomaniacs, who believes so much in absolute power, not for the good of<br \/>\nthe country but persecution and oppression of political opponents cum<br \/>\ncritics.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Akpabio&#8217;s defection has also exposed high level of political naivety,<br \/>\ngullibility and unbelievable hypocrisy amongst APC e-rats. A club that lost<br \/>\nits Ronaldos, Messis, Neymars, Bales, Mbappes, Modrics, etcetera, in a free<br \/>\ntransfer market to its main rival (PDP), has rolled out drums to celebrate<br \/>\nthe signing of Benzemas, Ighalos, Baloguns of this world, as if the club<br \/>\n(APC) has won Champions league. They forgot that their new signings are<br \/>\nexiting their old club (PDP), because they&#8217;re afraid of competing for<br \/>\njerseys with the new world class players, with million<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19311\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1-300x86.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1-768x219.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1-1024x292.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no longer news that Sen. Godwill Akpabio has left the PDP for APC. As surprising and perverse the decision may be,\u00a0 as democrats, we don&#8217;t have any option but to respect his fundamental right of association and expression, as enshrined in the constitution. I will not call Sen. 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