Defection: Atiku, others behave like Fulani nomads – Maku

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was on Wednesday attacked by the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, who likened him to a ‘Fulani nomad’ that derives pleasure in moving from one end to the other.
Maku described Abubakar and other key figures in the Peoples Democratic party who defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress as lacking in political ideology.
Maku, who was fielding questions from State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting, said the PDP would become stronger in spite of the defection of some governors and party chieftains.
He said: “I want to urge journalists to begin to monitor these movements more so as some of them have been moving for years now.
“They have not stopped.
“They are like the Fulani nomads.
“They move from one party to another without shame.
“It shouldn’t be something that we should cherish.
“If you look at the people now being celebrated in APC, they were the same people APC was attacking in PDP before as we started.
“When they were in PDP, they were seen as monsters.
“They were abusing them and then they crossed over to APC, they celebrate them now as the new leaders.
“So, you see something is wrong.
“And APC must tell Nigerians truly what does it have to offer them.
“Nothing.
“It is just semantics.
“And looking after failed people who moved from the PDP to APC, if that is the programme, then I think that something serious must happen.
“The press must hold people to account because this the time to hold people to account.
“If you look at all the people that have left PDP, some of them are the people that have caused all the headaches in the party.
“They have been the ones attacking their party.
“They are very quarrelsome.
“They have oversized egos.
“Some of them cannot stay under the same roof with anybody for one week without the top blowing up.
“A number of these people who left, if you take a look at the history of our party and look at their antecedents, you will see that they are migrants.
“They keep migrating from one place to another.
“So, the party needs to have members that believe in its ideology, that settle down because they believe in the party.”
The Minister also mocked Governors Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State and Rabiu Kwakwanso of Kano State, saying they are creating problems in their states.
He said: “They are already causing a huge problem there.
“There is already an explosion in APC in Kano because Kwankwaso went straight and took over a party he was not part of and insists that he must be the leader and sacked those who formed the party.
“You go to Sokoto again, Wamakko hijacked the party from those who formed APC in that place, who dissolved their own parties in order to form a political party.
“These people went and hijacked the party, took it away from them.
“So even from the point of view of justice, you were looking for democracy and you saw nothing wrong in going to another and hijacking the structure from them.
“So, you can see they are not democrats.
“These are serious desperadoes who believe that unless they are in charge, nobody should be.
“They are not democrats.”