The Jigawa State deputy governor, Alhaji Ahmad Mahmud, is set to dump the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Premium Times reports.
Jigawa State deputy governor, Ahmad Mahmud
The deputy governor will be received alongside some of the officials of PDP-led state government, including Commissioners, by the state APC chairman, Ado Kiri, the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Badaru Abubakar, and other APC leaders in the state.
The director of press to the deputy governor, Ahmed Gumel, confirmed that his principal would leave PDP for APC and will be received in his Galagamma Ward in Gumel Local Government Area.
He did not give any reason for the deputy governor’s decision to quit his party.
Many believe that Mahmud is decamping to pay back Governor Sule Lamido who refused to pick him as his successor.
But PDP accused him of anti-party activities.
Earlier, the PDP leadership in the deputy governor’s Gumel local government suspended him for alleged anti-party activities during the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
In a statement delivered through the director of press to the governor, Umar Kyari, the PDP chairman, Gumel Local Government, Ibrahim Kafinta, said the deputy governor was dismissed for allegedly voting for the APC in the elections, describing the action as a betrayal of trust.
Meanwhile Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, the Kano state governor, has strongly criticized his counterparts, Sule Lamido of Jigawa state and Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger state, saying that the duo committed political suicide by not defecting from PDP to APC.
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