It is a sickening reality in Nigeria that defection, the
act of leaving one political party for another, also known as carpet –crossing
or what the eminent poet and humorist, Uzor Maxim-Uzoatu called “Jumpology” (the political act of
jumping from party to party), has been elevated to the height of a national
ideology.
This glamourisation of political prostitution by Nigerian politicians signals the death of commonsense. Before the December 2013 defection of 37 members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the then opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in an open show and fanfare, four PDP governors had led the way in a much more rehearsed, media pampered braggadocio in November 2013.
