Tinubu In Shock As APC Secretary, Others Decamp To PDP

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There seems to be palpable fear within the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as senior members of the party on Tuesday, June 21, defected in mass to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

 According to news reports, the Taraba State APC Secretary, Tony Baba Suleiman, decamped to the PDP, alongside the party’s Chairman, in Sardauna local government area, Yusuf Gori Tanimu and hundreds of other members.


This according to sources has unsettled the National Leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu, as well as the Presidency.

Recall, that Taraba was the only State in the North East, where APC lost in all the elections conducted in the 2015 general elections to the PDP, however, the PDP was able to win majority of the seats in the National and State Assembly elections.

The Secretary while speaking, said the reason for their defection, was due to the fact that the APC leadership in Taraba State, had resorted to petty politics, by sidelining majority of its supporters that supported and gave it life in the State.

Sulieman in addition, accused the APC of lack of inclusiveness and abandonment of its teaming supporters, saying the party has become bereft of ideas and directionless.

He said, “As if it is not enough that the leadership of the APC here in Taraba State is bereft of ideas and is directionless, they have resorted to the petty politics of sidelining, lack of inclusiveness and abandonment of the few supporters that had their backing and gave them life”.

He further disclosed, that as truly and objective Tarabans who are passionate about the State and it’s all round revampment, which the State Governor, Darius Ishaku is championing, they need not think twice before switching to PDP.

The State PDP Chairman, Victor Bala Kona, while receiving the decampees at the party’s secretariat in Jalingo, said PDP has an everlasting agreement and pact with the people of Taraba State, adding that the party has no opposition in the State.

 While assuring the decampees that they have become full-fledged members of the PDP, with every right as other existing members, Kona urged them to go and re-register as bonafide members of the party.

Speaking on the raging crisis in PDP at the national level, Kona said the crisis was a family affair which would soon be resolved stressing that all the State chapters of the party remain one despite the misunderstanding being witnessed at the national level of the party. Kona however, reiterated that APC had failed the nation within 13 months of leadership, while charging all Nigerians, particularly supporters of the PDP to work assiduously to ensure PDP returns to power in 2019.

He said, “APC is a virus, APC Federal Government has failed Nigerians. Where is the change? Nothing has changed. People are suffering. Every Nigerian must work to change APC in 1999. PDP remains the only solution for Nigeria”.