THE crisis rocking the Adamawa State wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) since Governor Murtala Nyako decamped to the party in a controversial manner Monday took another dimension as over 280,000 members of APC announced defection to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The development came as the Nasarawa State Deputy Governor, Dameshi Barau Luka said President Goodluck Jonathan is a project of God and must be allowed to come to fruition by Nigerians if the country must attain its rightful place in the comity of nations.
The leader of the decamping APC members, Alhaji Dala’ilu Ala, said they left the party because of alleged undemocratic ways the governor handles its affairs.
Meanwhile, the local government election campaign tour embarked upon by Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura has continued to attract protests in most of the places visited.
Ala, who is the chairman of the Elders Forum under the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN) in Adamawa, while addressing thousands of the party members in Yola, said their action was based on the manifesto of ACN which is to pursue justice and fairness for the development of the country.
“I want to inform you that with the recent happenings in Adamawa APC under Nyako, a man who is popular in impunity and undemocratic activities, all faithful members of the former ACN numbering over 280,000 have moved to PDP to replace the undemocratic elements that have perverted the PDP since 2007 who have moved to wreck APC the same way they destroyed PDP,” he stated.
The spokesman of the decamping members noted that under the leadership of Nyako, no political party can achieved any democratic progress due to what he described as the governor’s taste for impunity and lawlessness in handling political issues.
“We wish to make it abundantly clear that our desire for true democracy can never be realised in a party made up of strange bed fellows with clear undemocratic antecedents that raped our state of the desire development for the past seven years and the brigandage exhibited in the recent APC registration exercise across the state,” Ala maintained.
On the President GoodLuck Jonathan’s 2015 presidential ambition, he said that the people of the state have resolved to give the president 99 per cent of their votes.
“We in Adamawa are happy with Nyako because he has finished our campaign for us, his poor performance has helped us, so for Adamawa, the 2015 game is over, PDP is in charge”, he said.
He called on patriotic people of the state to support Jonathan in 2015 and PDP government to ensure that democracy thrive in the country for development and peace.
Angry students from Nasarawa State University, Keffi who were engaged in the electioneering campaign by the APC, on Monday staged a protest over the alleged ill treatment meted out to them in Keffi.
Speaking with newsmen, leader of the Keffi protest group, Musa Attah said: “They had been with Governor Al-Makura on his tour rounding three local governments councils of Karu, Toto and Nasarawa. But to our greatest dismay, Nigerian students have been hungry since morning till this hours of the day, not even a piece of sachet water was given to any of us and at the end of the day the Special Adviser to Al-Makura on students matters, Kassim Muhammed, came with a paltry sum of N25,000 for over 50 students.
“Many of the students on the governor’s entourage left their homes and abandoned Sunday service for APC campaign in preparation for the forthcoming local government elections scheduled to hold on 22nd March, 2014 because we felt that we want to discharge our obligation to ensure that the government of the day is in the light of existence.”
The students were said to have been engaged by the SSA to Al-Makura to rally round all the aspirants vying for various positions in the forthcoming local government polls to ensure that APC takes the lead.
According to him, time has come when Nigerian students at all levels would never allow themselves to be used by selfish politicians in the state, noting that, “Gone were the days when politicians will come and deceive students, use them and dump them without meeting up their demands in Nasarawa State and Nigeria as whole.”
The deputy governor of Nasarawa State, Luka, who recently defected to the PDP from the APC spoke in Lafia, the state capital while playing host to the Consolidation Movement for Jonathan 2015.
The PDP, he said, is the party that will take the day at the federal, state and local government levels any day an election is conducted in a free and fair manner.
“Jonathan is a product from God and I am convinced that he is the project, and if Nigerians understand it better there will be more progress as only peace can guarantee sustainable development for any nation”.
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