Gov Suswam blames PDP for defection of 5 governors to APC

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Governor of Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam, has blamed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the defection to the All Progressive Congress (APC) of the aggrieved five PDP governors, saying the party was not tactful enough it would have avoided the defection.
Suswam who spoke during the visit of the members of a Non- Governmental Organization, Conference of Benue Journalist (CBJ) to Government House Makurdi, said: “What has happened of five governors defecting to an opposition party is something that is very unfortunate. It’s something that shouldn’t have happened if we were strategic enough. But it has happened, you can’t cry over spilt milk. The milk has already been spilt, what we need to do now is to strategies; that is my approach to politics. When you have a situation like this, you strategies by going back to the drawing table, and you will be surprised at what will happen.
“I don’t believe in noise, there is a lot of noise. Totally different from noise making; I don’t make noise; I’m strategic in whatever I want to do politically. I believe this has helped us, we are going back to the drawing board. There is going to be chain of events in a few months that will clearly indicate that Nigerians will vote PDP come 2015. I have no fears at all.
“ I started politics at the highest level since 1999. So there is nothing that surprises me. I’m not worried because things have happened in the past that appeared as if the country was coming to an end. But at the end of the day, we were able to come together to consider and refocus the party or the country. The dimension of what is happening now within the PDP is different from what has happened in the past. But that is not to say that the party will explode. What I want to say is that nothing will happen but it will rather strengthen the party. May be we were so large that we were taking things for granted and so now the party will be more strategic in approaching issues than it had been before. And this is a lesson that at any time, we shouldn’t take things for granted. May be as a party we have taken a lot of things for granted”.