Defection of G7 Governors: APC has invited Trouble -Sagay, Aturu

The defection of 5 of the 7 rebel governors and members of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP)  to the All Peoples Congress (APC) has generated mixed reactions in the polity.
The governors that defected are Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) while Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Sule Lamido (Jigawa)are still considering the defection move.
Lagos-based lawyer, Professor Itse Sagay, said the movement of the G-7 governors to APC is not a loss to the PDP, adding that the movement of the rebel governors who are nursing a personal agenda, into APC may amount to inviting trouble into the APC.
Sagay also berated the northern governors, saying while the APC was preoccupied with salvaging Nigeria from years of misrule, the motive of the northern governors is principally for power to return to the north.
“Concerning the Northern governors decamping to the APC, I really don’t think it is a loss to the PDP. If you look at these rebel governors, with the exclusion of Rotimi Amaechi, you will find out that their agenda is a very narrow agenda, a very personal one. And that agenda is for the North to produce the president so that a Northerner can control the Niger Delta oil and Lagos State VAT and so on.
In his own reaction, Bamidele Aturu said the primary motive of the gladiators in the present arrangement is to feather their nests and not to advance the cause of Nigerians.
The human rights activist said the movement of the rebel governors to the APC had proved to Nigerians that there is no clear-cut difference between the political parties in Nigeria.

Governor Aliyu, who showed up briefly at the conclusion of the merger talks in the Kano Governor’s Lodge in Asokoro District, Abuja will determine his political future in January, next year.
Lamido decided to go through the peace talks with the President, based on the advice of his political godfather, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, who he fondly calls “The Oracle”.
The outcome of the peace talks would guide Lamido’s choice- either to pitch his tent with the APC or not.
It was also learnt that Lamido is tarrying a while because of alleged overtures from the Presidency on the fate of his sons, who were recently arrested for money laundering.