Chief Ken Nnamani, former Senate President on Sunday said he was not forced by anybody to join All Progressives Congress (APC), saying he acted according to his conscience.
Nnamani, who currently heads the National Electoral Reform Committee, said somebody may call him an opportunist for leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which made him, but he does not care.
He spoke at his Amechi ward, Enugu South local government area, Enugu State, shortly after he formally registered with APC.
Addressing notable bigwigs of Enugu APC who graced the event including Osita Okechukwu, the director general of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Emma Eneukwu, national vice chairman South-East, Ben Nwoye, state chairman, and Chief Onyemuche Nnamani, the former senate president said as long as God gives him strength, he would continue to identify with the winners.
“In politics of our nation, if you read in between the lines, you will not ask anybody who has finished buying something from the market to buy something for you. He is tired he will not buy anything.
"You must identify with somebody going to the market. I will not waste my money to invest in a group of people who have finished buying. As God gives me strength, I will identify with potential winners. If that makes me opportunist, so be it.
“APC is not perfect but we will join hands in making it perfect. I am playing according to my conscience. Many people will criticise me, saying that I left a party that helped to make me. I quit PDP on February 6 last year and went on sabbatical. By February 6 this year, it will be one year that I left PDP. I must not remain partyless. I have decided to join APC. Nobody forced me. It is my decision. I will tell my supporters why I joined APC at the appropriate time. If a song is going on, if the rhythm changes, you change your steps.
“South-East has a role to play in our nation. We cannot stay outside and keep crying. We have to be inside to make a change and not from outside. If we want the imbalance to be addressed, we must come inside. You cannot stay outside and be throwing stones, nobody will listen to you,” Nnamani said.
Senator Nnamani said he was not out to condemn anybody but thinks that in the current political stream, one must join the winning group.
He said even though nobody is perfect, a person must join the party nearing perfection while it was necessary to tell relations of somebody with terminal illness so that they could start preparing for burial.
He noted that impunity reigns in some political parties and some answer democratic and yet they are not democratic and say one thing and do the other.
Nnamani, however, advised that those in APC must not tell those who want to enter to get out, but made it clear that the people coming in with baggage should not come to the front seat as the face of APC is that of purity.
Nnamani urged APC members to come all out the way he has done, saying that they must not be APC in the afternoon and PDP in the night.
Welcoming Nnamani to the APC fold, the Okechukwu said while they were open to new members, they have to be cautious not to admit those who in one way or the other participated in dislocating and subverting the PDP.
“My fear is that they may also wittingly or unwittingly infest the APC Enugu State with such anti-democratic and less than transparent tendency.
“One can remember vividly not only how Senator Nnamani and the governor of Kastina State, Aminu Masari worked hard to re-organise and re-position the PDP, and most importantly how he killed the infamous third term” Okechukwu said.
Earlier, Ben Nwoye, the state chairman of APC, described the entrance of Nnamani into APC fold as the beginning of change in Igboland, saying, "this is a man you cannot just say belongs to Enugu State alone."
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