Governor Wamakko To Join APC, Says PDP is Sinking Under Bamangar Tukur
As the PDP continues fight with itself, one of its suspended governors,
Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State, on Wednesday came down hard and heavy on
the National Chairman of the party, Bamanga Tukur, denouncing him as a
political prostitute whose mission is to destroy the party and north.
Addressing a mammoth crowd at the Government House on his return to the Sokoto, Wamakko said people like Bamanga Tukur and Ahmed Gulak, President Goodluck Jonathan's Special Adviser on Political Matters, have no business in any party as they do not have what it takes.
On his suspension from the party, Governor Wamakko, who was flanked by Speaker Aminu Tambuwal, vehemently dismissed the development, saying he has no apology whatsoever...
He stressed further, “I will never support Godswill Akpabio, the Chairman of PDP Governors Forum.”
Wamakko called on real PDP leaders to bring back, Ahmadu Ali and Abubakar Kawu Baraje, to continue as Chairman and Secretary of the party, if they do not want the party to collapse soon.
Wamakko called on real PDP leaders to bring back, Ahmadu Ali and Abubakar Kawu Baraje, to continue as Chairman and Secretary of the party, if they do not want the party to collapse soon.
The governor said, “When we took over PDP in 2011, the party has no single elected person from Sokoto state. Today we have won all the 234 seats of the Councilors as well as all the 23 local government chairmen. We have won all the 30 members of the state house of assembly, all the 11 members of the national assembly, all the 3 senators as well as the governor and his deputy, therefore the peoples of Sokoto state are ardent lovers and supporters of Alu not PDP.”
In a related development, there are strong indications that Gov Wamakko may be the first PDP governor to openly dump the party and declare for the All Progressive Congress, APC, and he may likely move with the Speaker of the House of Reps, Aminu Tambuwal and all Tambuwal supporters in the House.
The governor was said to have held a closed-door meeting with Bola Ahmed
Tinibu in Lagos upon his arrival from The Netherlands, where he
attended an investment forum. A source say Wamakko spent over 3 hours
with Tinubu to discuss the terms of his joining the APC.
