IF SHEKARAU FORMER KANO STATE GOVERNOR AND BAFARAWA FORMER SOKOTO STATE GOVERNOR HAVE DEFECTED FROM APC TO PDP, PROMISING TO WORK FOR JONATHAN, WHAT ARE WE IN THE SOUTH, EAST, WEST PARTICULARLY THE NIGER DELTANS AND DELTA STATE PEOPLE WAITING FOR? LET US RISE TO SUPPORT AND CAMPAIGN VIGOROUSLY FOR JONATHAN IN 2015. SHEKARAU DEFECTS, PROMISES TO WORK FOR JONATHAN AS REPORTED IN LEADERSHIP NEWSPAPER. Abubakar Salihi, Adesuwa Tsan — January 30, 2014 Former Kano State governor and presidential candidate of the defunct ANPP in 2011 Ibrahim Shekarau yesterday defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), promising to support the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. The event attracted hundreds of supporters who renamed Jonathan “Juniadu Garba”. 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. SHEKARAU DEFECTS, PROMISES TO WORK FOR JONATHAN Former Kano State governor and presidential candidate of the defunct ANPP in 2011 Ibrahim Shekarau yesterday defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), promising to support the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. The event attracted hundreds of supporters who renamed Jonathan “Juniadu Garba”. Speaking on the occasion, Shekarau said, “Today as we decamp out of the APC which we helped nurture and brought to the limelight, we understand that it is not the name of a party that matters but whom you are going to work with.” He said APC was created just six months ago with a mandate to its caretaker committee to ensure elections in all structures of the party that involved leadership, “but to our utmost dismay today, exactly six months, there is nothing on ground to suggest that the party is serious and ready to even elect a new leadership of the party”. The defection of Shekarau alongside his hundreds of supporters was dramatized as he asked for somebody to move the motion for such. One Alhaji Shehu Maigari Doguwa on behalf of the stakeholders moved it and was seconded by Alhaji Yakubu Musa Hausawa, the secretary of all 44 local government secretaries. As the event was ongoing, the crowd started shouting “sai Junaidu Garba”, referring to Jonathan. Hundreds of them wore the usual south-south hats, indicating their open loyalty to Jonathan. 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.
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