A former Chief Whip of the Senate and now National Leader of the Action Democratic Party, ADP, Senator Roland Owie has given reasons the recent coalition of about 30 political parties with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was deceitful and a waste of time.
The former lawmaker also pointed out that lawmakers were defecting because they were desperate to get return ticket in 2019.
Recently over 30 political parties, including a faction of the All Progressives Congress, known as the R-APC formed a Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP.
They aimed at sacking the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
Owei said it was a coalition of deceit that would not work.
He spoke in Auchi, Etsako West local government area of Edo State where he received members of the Nigeria Intervention Movement into ADP.
Owie said the PDP had failed Nigeria and any coalition with it would also fail.
“We refused to be in the coalition because the moment you move into a lepers colony, you become a leper, he said.
“For 16 years, we could not construct the Niger Bridge and the same people are coming to tell you we will be better let us work together, it is not right and it will not work.
“We said we are the alternative party, let God and Nigerians give us a chance to develop this nation. Time is not on the side of Nigeria.
“Quite frankly, how can a man who could not hold his farm for 16 years, he farmed and ate all the yam then say that you should come and farm then say, what will happen? The whole farm will go to him,” he said.
He said the recent defection in the National Assembly “was as a result of desperation for return ticket by the defectors.”
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