The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the defection of Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, as an act of cowardice and a mark of an unprincipled politician.
In a statement in Abuja on Friday, Comrade Ini Ememobong, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, said the move was a clear violation of political principles and morality, and a threat to multi-party democracy and democratic consolidation.
The party stressed that for a person to abandon a platform that provided political coverage for him across many election cycles, at the first sight of slight discomfort, “is unambiguously an exhibition of unrestrained cowardice, and not a mark of a principled politician.”
The PDP said the defection, though long speculated, had attracted several rebuttals from the Governor himself, even as “recent as last week, after the Presidential visit to Adamawa.”
While acknowledging that the defection is well within Fintiri’s legal rights, the party described it as violation of political principles and morality.
“For a person to abandon a platform that provided political coverage for him, across many election cycles at the sight of slight discomfort, is unambiguously an exhibition of unrestrained cowardice, and not a mark of a principled politician.”
The Statement reminded Finitri that history and posterity are the ultimate and unbiased judges of human conduct and are actively recording the actions and inactions of people.
While calling on party members in Adamawa to accept the reality with grace, Ememobong said the true test of a person is during times of inconvenience and contention.
