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An erstwhile Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has stated that the request for extortion from alleged corruption cases is the main crushed down the caller question of defections into the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Dalung made this revelation connected Tuesday during an interrogation connected The Morning Brief, a programme connected Channels Television, conscionable hours aft the latest circular of defections.
DAILY POST reports that Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, and his predecessor, Ifeanyi Okowa, person officially joined APC.
While Oborevwori claimed the defection was successful the involvement of the oil-rich state, Dalung disagreed with the governor’s justification.
“The question of defections oregon the gale of defections of the governmental elites who are repositioning themselves either for survival, protection, oregon evasion of prosecution cannot beryllium taken earnestly by students of Nigerian politics,” Dalung said.
According to the erstwhile Sports Minister, it is the electorate who should find whether an elected officeholder is permitted to defect.
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