Ex-deputy gov., 2 speakers, 20 thousand others dump APC for PDP in Zamfara

Zamfara state former deputy governor, Muktar Muhammad Anka, two former speakers, Mamman Bawa and Bature Umar Sambo, alongside over 3,000 supporters, have dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC), and joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the ruling party in the state.

Speaking during the formal decamping ceremony at government house Gusau, Thursday, the former deputy governor said they finally resolved to leave the APC and joined the PDP in the state because of APC’s lack of merit, injustice and disunity at state level.

Further, Anka said they dumped APC after considering how Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle has brought an end of the hitherto lingering insecurity occasioned by armed banditry in the state.

“The current peace reconciliation between Zamfara state and bandits is a welcome development and worthy of commendation. We are ready to give our unflinching support to our amiable governor, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, as takes up the task of developing the state”, Anka said.

According to him, over 198 senior special advisers of former governor Abdulaziz Yari, seven serving councillors, vice chairman of Zurmi local government, former commissioners were among those that have defected to the PDP from the APC in the state.
In his remarks, the state chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Ibrahim Mallaha, promised to carry all them along with other members of the party fairly.

Meanwhile, Governor Matawalle has commended the former deputy governor and other prominent APC chieftains for joining the PDP, saying his doors are always open for positive suggestions from any group provided it would lead to the development of the state’s socio-economic potential.