More PDP governors to defect, says Femi Adesina

Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on media and publicity has said more opposition governors are expected to join the ruling party.

Adesina explained that governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be lured to the All Progressives Congress by the achievements of the ruling party.

“There will be a massive unveiling of infrastructure come 2022; starting from commissioning of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway which the PDP could not achieve in 16 years, to the AKK Pipeline and so many highways. These massive projects will make a lot of PDP governors to join the APC,” Adesina said in a UK television interview.

Adesina is in the UK as part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s team to attend the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025.

In the interview, he knocked the PDP for saying the APC has turned the Presidential Villa into its party headquarters.

He said PDP governors have been talking with the APC leadership on plans to defect, saying that many of them will dump their party next year when President Buhari begins to inaugurate projects.

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“Between now and 2023, there will be more confusion in the party. No one makes noise when they (PDP) were holding BoT (Board of Trustees) meetings during Obasanjo (Olusegun) Yar’Adua (Umaru) and Jonathan (Goodluck) regimes. Why are they complaining now?”

On Buhari’s trip to the UK, Adesina said that the countries battling with out-of-school children will be discussing on how to tackle the issue.

President Buhari and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he said, will meet on the sideline of the event.

On insecurity, he said there were challenges in certain areas but that doesn’t mean good things have not been happening in the country.

He said: “These challenges are being tackled; just like many other countries are facing challenges. All the security challenges are being taken as a whole; we are also working on infrastructure massively and tackling insecurity massively.”