NIGERIA (Abuja) – The National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has said the current mass defection of members of the party into the All Progressives Congress (APC) would have no negative effect on the party.

He said this on Thursday in Abuja while inaugurating a 14-member caretaker committee for the party’s Kwara State chapter.

While reacting to the defection of 27 PDP members of Sokoto State House of Assembly to APC, Tukur said it is a normal thing for politicians to decamp from one party to another.

“If 27 have left, many would come in, that is the beauty of democracy. This is democracy in action where freedom of choice is entrenched,’’ Tukur said.

According to him, the inauguration of the PDP Kwara caretaker committee was the beginning of the process aimed at ensuring a foundation which the party had always advocated.

Tukur maintained that the PDP stands for democracy not dictatorship, while tasking the committee to ensure that they got the mandate of the electorate for the party in the 2015 general election.