Defecting Lawmakers ‘Victims Of Disinformation’, Says Oshiomhole

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiohmole, has described members of the National Assembly who defected to other opposition parties as “victims of disinformation”.

Oshiohmole stated this when he addressed State House correspondents shortly after a meeting between APC Senators and President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday night.

He said the APC are still majority in both chambers of the National Assembly, despite the defectors, adding that the Buhari administration would not be deterred in delivering on its mandate to provide good governance for Nigerians.

Recall that on Tuesday, 52 federal lawmakers from the Senate and House of Representatives defected from the APC, with about 95 percent joining the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

But the APC chairman said the defectors were deceived by a few, noting that the truth will surface soon.

He further stated that the door remains open for the defecting lawmakers to return back to the party.

“The Senators have come in huge numbers as the Senate leader had earlier said, namely that APC remains the party with the highest number of senators in the senate and in the House of Representatives. So, that fact has been reaffirmed,” he said.

“Number two, we still have what it takes to continue to provide good governance for Nigerians.

“Number three, those people who had left, many of them were victims of disinformation.

“I think there was a clear attempt by a few who have the agenda to try and play up fears and then seek to profit from those fears by spreading disinformation in the manner that they did.

“But like everything that is not based on truth, overtime truth emerges and people who were victims of disinformation retrieve their steps which is why a senator from Ogun has already returned to the fold.

“I’m sure more and more who left out of confusion and who were misled, I believe they will come back.

“But much more importantly is that we have agreed that going forward, this party cannot be intimidated, the government will not be intimidated, it cannot be distracted, we remain focused, we remain committed to addressing those critical challenges that confront our country – security, economy and fighting corruption.”