House of Reps speaker Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal,

who has recently defected from the Peoples

Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives

Congress (APC), explained November 12 the

reasons for his decision.

It would be noted that Tambuwal’s move caused

highly-publicized scandal in Nigeria’s politics. Today

as he spoke at the 6th anniversary celebration of

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, the

politician explained that the dumped the ruling

party because the system had been “hijacked” by a

“cabal”, The Nation reports.

He concluded that such system needed to be

changed.

“We have accepted to join the movement of

progressives to change the system. The system

today is malfunctioning and has failed in several

ways. You have to change a system that is not

working. We have a cabal that has hijacked the

instrument of authority. We should vote them out

in February. What do the people of the South

South have to show for voting the President?

Nothing.”

Tambuwal expressed concern that people from the

South South may vote for the leader in 2015

elections based on the sentiments saying however

that mere sentiments would not produce a good

leader. Thus, the speaker urged people not to be

deceived by sentiments.

Meanwhile President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday,

November 11, officially declared his interest to run

for re-election in February of the next year . His

speech was followed by the immediate reaction of

the APC.

The opposition party accused GEJ of being

insensitive and advancing his political interests only

a day after a dire terror attack on Potiskum

school killed, according to the latest update, 58

people.