Mass defections from the All Progressives Congress (APC) are anticipated starting in April by the nation’s major opposition parties.

The Sun reports that the defections will result from primaries that will be held in the nation’s 36 State Houses of Assembly, 109 Senate districts, 360 federal constituencies, and 990 seats.

Lawmakers vying for return tickets are concerned that their state governors may oppose them since the new Electoral Act eliminated indirect primaries.

In front of the 2027 elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has already published an updated election schedule, and the different political parties will hold primaries.

Some state and national assembly members who intend to rejoin the legislature told the aforementioned media that they would be seriously threatened by the recent defections of opposition governors to the ruling APC.

The lawmakers, who wished to remain anonymous, claimed that the governors who joined the APC insisted on fielding candidates before the upcoming general elections, without consulting anyone they encountered within the party.

One of the Delta State lawmakers told the publication that the ability to choose flag bearers for the general elections the next year was one of the agreements and talks the governors made with the APC and President Bola Tinubu.

He claimed that some of the governors insisted on putting in new candidates, primarily from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but were unwilling to make room for the APC members they had met when they left the party.

He claimed that the irate APC members have initiated negotiations with the PDP, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), and the Labour Party (LP) in order to make accommodations and provide them with return tickets to parliament so they won’t be caught off guard.

“In the states, political party structures are under the authority of the governors. Nearly every PDP governor has switched to the APC as of right now. They arrived with their own organizations and supporters. Regretfully, the governors have already made arrangements with President Tinubu and the APC leadership to permit them to field candidates for the general elections in the next year.

“A few of us are aware that we won’t receive the tickets. Opening talks with the PDP, ADC, and LP is our only choice. One of the lawmakers stated, “Hopefully, we will use our popularity to campaign and hope that we win our re-elections next year.”

The APC intends to hold its national and state house of assembly primaries close to the end of the window allowed by INEC in an effort to curb the mass defections.

According to an APC source, candidates who are rejected will not be able to defect and obtain tickets from the opposition parties by the end of May this year if the plan goes through.

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Clement Jimbo, the member of the House of Representatives who represents the Abak/Etim Ekpo/Ika federal district, has claimed that Peter Obi, the previous Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, is incapable of winning any elections in Nigeria.

Jimbo reportedly discussed Peter Obi’s partnership with the African Democratic Congress (ADC) coalition in an interview with Cable News.

He claims Peter Obi is working to prevent him from winning any Nigerian elections, pointing to his history of defections and his incapacity to remain in one political party long enough to develop and solidify.

He reiterated that Peter Obi is merely making noise and cannot win any elections, arguing that many of his fans only exist online and are unaware of their polling place.

“APC is not afraid of anyone, and I say this as a matter of fact,” he remarked. In biology class, we learned that living things move and grow, and I’ll use that concept here. You brought up Peter Obi, so let me speak about that specifically.

“Peter Obi has been on the go. Does that tell you anything? That he is still alive. But where is he heading? Logically, you will never make it to a flight if you have one to catch at a specific time and you are not heading toward the airport.

Therefore, I can inform you that Mr. Peter Obi is not going in the direction of winning any elections in this country.

“Let me be quite clear. Before settling with ADC, he transitioned from APGA to PDP, then to the Labour Party. In order to develop and solidify his position, he has not remained in one political party. You can guarantee yourself a specific amount of winning % if you know your home’s stability percentage. That’s extremely useful.

“There was no Labour Party agent in my unit in Abak Urban Ward 1, therefore I challenged Peter Obi to identify one on whatever platform. If you are a political personality or a party candidate hoping to win an election, you must have agents spread throughout the more than 8,000 polling places. But he is unable to do so. It indicates that the audience he says he has is suspended in midair.

“Let me also take on Peter Obi and the majority of his social media-active supporters. How many of them are aware of their polling places? Social media isn’t used for elections. What was the number of voters? As a result, they encountered difficulties when the court requested copies of the findings. Peter Obi is just creating noise, then. He is incapable of winning any Nigerian election.

Observe the members of the APC. The northern Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) was led by the late President Muhammadu Buhari. He remained with his party and ran for office three times in a row, both during and outside of the season. He never defected to another political party. He was aware of the dedication and sacrifice required to establish a political party.

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