Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has thrown the door open for members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Osinbajo said this on Sunday at a dinner to mark the 80th birthday of former APC national chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun.
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Recounting the story of a dying American Republican senator who told his family that he wanted to cross over to the Democratic Party before his death, Osinbajo said: “Let me tell a story of politician who was a long-time life Republican politician in the United States. He was lying down on a sickbed and was about to die, he said, ‘I want to change my party, I want to become a Democrat so that tomorrow it will be announced that a Democrat died not a Republican’.
“You can see that we politicians very faithful and very loyal indeed. I can only ask our friends in PDP also to ensure that they cross over before they die! It is time for them to cross over.”
Osinbajo described Odigie-Oyegun as one who has always been his own man.
The celebrant, however, called for a reward system for those who faithfully serve the nation.
Former Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, was the guest speaker at the event.
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The dinner was attended by APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, Governors Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti); Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi); Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna); Simon Lalong (Plateau); Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo) and Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano).
Others were former governors Chris Ngige, Ogbonnaya Onu, Rotimi Amaechi, Chukwuemeka Eziefe, Segun Osoba, and the Catholic Bishop of Abuja, John Onaiyekan, among others.
