The Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives George Ibezimako Ozodinobi (LP, Anambra) has berated his colleagues for leaving the party to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Four members of the LP – Chinedu Okere (Owerri Municipal/Owerri North/Owerri West Constituency), Mathew Donatus (Kaura Federal Constituency of Kaduna), Akiba Bassey (Calabar Municipal/Odukpani Constituency), and Esosa Iyawe (Oredo Federal Constituency, Edo) – left the party on Thursday.
The quartet cited internal squabbles in the Labour Party – which garnered about six million votes in last year’s presidential election – as the reason for their political switch, according to a letter read by the Speaker of the House Abbas Tajudeen during plenary on Thursday.
But after the speaker read the letter of defection, Ozodinobi raised a point of order on the floor of the Green Chamber, expressing disappointment with his colleagues who had just left the LP.
“I will quote the Bible. When Jesus was carrying the cross to the Calvary, the woman, Veronica, was weeping. And he looked back and said, women of Israel, don’t weep for me, weep for yourself,” the lawmaker said.
“I am telling those who have defected that they will continue weeping for themselves because where you have crossed over to, you don’t have a future”.
In the wake of their defection, the Labour Party described their move as disappointing.
Peoplesmind
