Defection: Don’t blame Tinubu for your failure – APC chieftain tells opposition parties

A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has called on the opposition parties to stop blaming President Bola Tinubu for the defection of their members to the ruling party.

Oyintiloye, who was a lawmaker, made the call while speaking with journalists on Sunday in Osogbo, the state capital.

According to him, rather than blaming the President, members of the opposite parties should focus on fixing the crisis within their folds.

The APC chieftain, while noting that political realignment is not new in Nigeria, said that the recent wave of defections was due to ideological persuasion and not coercion as being speculated in some quarters.

Oyintiloye added that the opposition…