BUHARI, TINUBU IN YOLA TO WOO GOV NYAKO • WE WONT LEAVE PDP NOW – GOV ALIYU NIGER State governor, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, has indicated that the G7 governors were not in a hurry to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over some unresolved crisis within the party’s hierarchy. Aliyu, in a veiled reference to the All Progressives Congress (APC), asked opposition political parties hoping to reap from the crisis by recruiting the aggrieved governors and their allies into their own parties to make their own parties better. He made the comments at the inauguration of a newly constructed secretariat of the PDP in Bida Local Government Area of the state, stressing that the political class in the country needed to be committed to the terms of agreement and promises they make during campaigns so as to earn respect of the people they govern. “I have learnt to keep promises. I have learnt to keep to agreements. We must teach our children on how to respect agreements and promises. Although we have a ceasefire in order to make our party better, we need discipline in our party. We need unity and, above all, we need democracy to be entrenched in our party. Therefore, the G7 governors are still on course,” said Aliyu. The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Friday, invited Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State and his supporters to join the party. Speaking during a visit to the governor in Yola, General Muhammadu Buhari, who led the delegation, said that the team was touring the states controlled by the G7 governors of the PDP to woo them to the APC. Buhari thanked Nyako and people of the state for the reception accorded them at the Yola International Airport. He urged Nigerians to support the APC to move Nigeria forward. Also speaking at the occasion, former Lagos Sate governor, Bola Tinubu, said Nyako and his followers had found themselves in the wrong party and urged them “to retrace their steps and join the right party, APC.” He said Nigeria needed the cohesive efforts of all and sundry in the political arena to join hands with APC to move the nation forward. “We are in Yola for the same mission of wooing the G7 governors to join hands with the APC stalwarts to salvage the country from the impunity of the ruling party,” Tinubu said. He said APC leaders were ready to fight injustice and save Nigeria from the PDP and to inject a new lease of life in the polity. Responding Nyako said he would, at the appropriate time, along with his teeming supporters, respond to the APC’s invitation to join the party. The visiting APC chieftains included the Interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, former Lagos State governor Buba Marwa and the North East Zonal Chairman of the party, Alhaji Umaru Duhu. Nigerian Tribune
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 10:43:34 +0000