BUHARI TELLS DEFECTORS TO APC NOT TO EXPECT MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS IMMEDIATELY

President-elect , Muhammadu Buhari while responding to a question as to whether defectors from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC) would not pollute the ranks of the APC, during an interactive session with journalists in Daura, said all defectors will be treated in a just and fair manner in an APC led government but should not expect to be appointed in the same position they were in their former parties.

 Buhari said,

"For those that are coming into the APC, I have no fear because we have our party structure. The fact that you were a party chairman or you were a minister before you join the APC, we appreciate the fact that you remain relevant in your immediate locality. But when it comes to the centre, there is some equality in the way the government will handle you.

If we win majority of members of the National Assembly and House of Assembly in the states, it means that it is with the agreement of their constituencies that the federal government has the power that it has, if the federal government is insisting on accountability and being responsible even if they go back to their constituencies, there is nothing they can do about the decision of the government.

We are banking on that, I will give you an example of my state, Katsina. In 2011, the CPC won all the senatorial seats and 13 out of the 15 House of Representatives seats but they lost the governorship. Who did the election? Did people from space come for the election? That is the bad thing about lack of cohesion in a party. Leadership at all levels must work in concert.

Otherwise, what Katsina State suffered, any state or centre can suffer same. Those were chief executives from local government, to states will be encouraged to work together. So those that are coming in I hope they will accept that they are coming to join those who succeeded and they should co-operate with them. They can't come and say because they were once Ministers under PDP, they will join APC and become ministers the following month or so. I don't think that will be acceptable even by their constituencies".