I Won't Appoint PDP Defectors As Ministers - Buhari

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari said the
All Progressives Congress (APC) has
nothing to fear over mass defection of
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members
to the party.
"I have no fears of PDP defectors," he said
in an interview in his Daura residence on
Saturday.
Buhari said the PDP chieftains will have very
little influence in the APC government.
He said APC has all the capacity to manage
the large numbers of PDP defectors.
"The people who are defecting will only
have influence in their constituencies. Since
their constituencies are now controlled by
the APC their influence is therefore limited,"
he said.
Though the president-elect said only the
party can handle the issue of defections, he
said the PDP bigwigs will be wise enough
not to jostle for positions in the new
government.
"I hope the people that are defecting will
accept the fact that they are joining the
people who succeeded. So, I don't think
they will just come and say they want to be
ministers next month simply because they
were ministers before," he said.