NUJ Zonal Scribe lampoons Politicians in Nigeria over arbitrary defections

Lack of Political ideology has been identified as one of the major reasons for defection from one political party to another by politicians.

The Zonal Secretary South-South, Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Mr. Opaka Dokubo who made the assertion while featuring as a guest on a radio programme in Port Harcourt maintained that if both political parties and individuals have strong ideologies upon which their activities are built, it would be difficult for politicians to defect.

The former NUJ chairman Rivers State Council argued that members of a family do not run away from their family when there are issues but resolve it, as such, politicians should as well resolve internal crisis within the party’s internal structure rather than run away to form their own parties.

Similarly, another guest on the programme, former Ijaw Youth Council Secretary, Comrade Bristol Alagbariya while acknowledging that politicians are free to defect, however stated that most politicians defect to other parties especially in recent time as a protective mechanism against their questionable past.

Comrade Alagbariya urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to monitor internal democracy.

The guests suggested that political office holders should be made to forfeit their positions if they defect from their original party on which platform they got their mandate to act as a deterrent.