Some political heavyweights in the All Progressives Congress, (APC), in Adamawa State yesterday vowed that they are in the party to see off the State government formed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
However, in view of coronavirus, what was intended to be a huge welcome rally for new prominent entrants was reduced to a small meeting, attended only by the leading new members at the State Secretariat in Yola, the State capital.
Sen. AbdulAzeez Nyako, who officially returned to the APC and his African Democratic Congress (ADC) which structures were collapsed into the APC constituted the highlight of the meeting attended also by Sen. Ishaku Abbo who officially defected to the APC from PDP, as well as former governor, Barr. Bala Ngilari, who also left the PDP.
AbdulAzeez, who defected from the APC towards the 2019 election to pick the ADC governorship ticket because he was not accommodated for his ambition at the time in the APC, admitted that the APC lost the 2019 governorship election because of conflict among leading members, saying his priority as he returned to the APC is to contribute his part in routing out the PDP come 2023.
Speaking also, Sen. Ishaku Abbo who had always been at loggerheads with Governor Fintiri even while in the PDP, charged APC to do all that is electorally possible to remove Fintiri in 2023.
Abbo, who has been touted to be interested in running for governor under the APC as he comes into it, said at the Saturday event that he was not a power-monger and that he could say the same for the others coming into the party.
Bala Ngilari, who was Adamawa State governor under PDP between October 1, 2014 and May 29, 2015, said he had always been in one party and did not believe in restless party politics but that for him to be defecting into APC means that APC is a great party. The APC National Caretaker Committee member for North-East, Prof. Tahir Mamman, asked the APC in the state to brace up for thorough membership registration in the near future.
