APC is a party without membership – Bafarawa Meanwhile, former Sokoto State governor Attahiru Bafarawa has said that the APC has remained a political party without membership six months after its formation. Bafarawa, who was until now a chieftain of the APC, spoke at the national secretariat of the PDP in Abuja. Bafarawa, who has formally defected to the PDP and was at the secretariat with his supporters, challenged the leaders of the APC to show Nigerians the party’s membership register to debunk his claim. “It is sad that up till this moment, the APC has no membership register, nobody has APC membership card after six months of their merging,’’ Bafarawa said. According to him, the APC is only operating on the pages of newspapers. He, therefore, urged the national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, to immediately allow the party to embark on mass membership drive nationwide. This, he said, would reveal that the PDP was alive across the country, “unlike the lame-duck APC which could not boast of a single member with its membership card after six months of its registration’’. The former governor said that he was defecting from the APC to PDP with his followers in Sokoto and across the nation to contribute his quota to the development of the PDP and the country. “We are not joining PDP because it is a ruling party or because we are looking for appointments or because we are looking for material things. “We are joining PDP because we want to continue to contribute our own quota to the development of the party and the country,” he said. Bafarawa said that several PDP leaders including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the late Solomon Lar and Chief Tony Anenih had made frantic efforts to woo him into the PDP with mouth-watering offers. He said that their offers were, however, rejected because he was not interested in material things but the development of the country as a whole.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:17:07 +0000