On Thursday, 1st July 2021, Abdullahi Sule, the Governor of Nasarawa State, has said that the gale of defections recorded recently is owing to the fact that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is getting weaker under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
Sule, who appeared on Politics Today, a Channels TV show monitored by Anaedoonline.ng, was reacting to the defection of some PDP lawmakers and Governors to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
This, he attributed to the weak state of the opposition party, saying that the situation is getting worse. According to Governor Sule, the APC’s depletion of PDP by poaching its governors and lawmakers is a part of politicking.
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“We have been a very strong party and we are doing the best we can to continue to be stronger and the only way we can be stronger is to get more and more people and the right people to get are the leaders of the opposition. That’s what we are trying to do and God so kind we are doing that,” the governor stated.
Governor Sule further said “PDP has always been weak since President Muhammadu Buhari came in,” adding that all that is being seen at the moment is that the party is becoming “weaker and weaker”.
He boasted that the APC is doing a very good job by ensuring that it opens its doors and give Nigerians what they are looking for when it comes to governance. Sule’s comments come on the heels of the latest defection of Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State.
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Matawalle, late Tuesday, announced his defection at the Gusau Trade Fair Complex at an event attended by APC governors, ministers, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.
Meanwhile, the state’s deputy governor, Mahdi Aliyu, and the member representing Talata Mafara/Anka in the State House of Assembly, Kabiru Yahaya, have decided to remain in the opposition PDP. Some federal lawmakers from the state who are also members of the PDP had earlier announced their defection to the APC but it is not yet clear whether all the lawmakers joined the governor to the APC.
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