Former member of the House of Representatives, Dachung Bagos, has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) a failed and irredeemable platform, citing the party’s internal crisis and lack of direction as reasons for his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Naija News reports that Bagos made the comments on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief, a day after formally joining the ruling party.
Reacting to criticisms of political opportunism, Bagos insisted that his decision was not motivated by self-interest but by a desire to align with a party that reflects the yearnings of his people.
He said, “We are not jumping parties for political ambition. We are jumping parties because of the platform that wants to give our people a voice, and leadership that says, ‘You can trust us to be able to address this very issue.
“We are not jumping parties because of sycophancy. We are jumping party because the PDP has failed at this particular moment, and it’s irredeemable.”
The former Plateau lawmaker stressed that party affiliation should not take precedence over good governance, saying his move to the APC was guided by policies that resonate with the aspirations of his constituents.
“Governance is beyond party lines. It is about what those agendas are on the table that you can make your people believe and understand that, look, this is the solution,” he said.
Bagos explained that the APC’s current national focus aligns with key issues affecting his home state, Plateau.
Highlighting recent policy pronouncements by President Bola Tinubu, Bagos said he was particularly encouraged by renewed commitments to state policing and local government autonomy.
“If he [Tinubu] has re-emphasised the issue of local government autonomy and to ensure that every state has local government elections… we want the son of nobody to be a local government chairman, we want the son of nobody to be this and that.
“We want to see the youth who have never believed in politics to believe in politics,” he said.
Bagos’ defection comes amid a wave of high-profile exits from the PDP to the APC and other platforms, driven by long-running internal crises within the opposition party.
His move also follows that of Plateau State Governor, Caleb Muftwang, who recently aligned with the APC
