Buba Marwa Decamps To PDP

Former Lagos State Governor, Gen Mohammed Buba Marwa has dumped the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), alleging irreconcilable differences between him and the leaders of the party in Adamawa State - Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako and former Vice

President Atiku Abubakar.

He is following the footstep of former ACN guber candidate in 2011 Engineer Markus Natina Gundiri who defected last month to the PDP as major disaffections in Adamawa State Chapter of APC continued.

At a stakeholders meeting attended by many supporters of Marwa at Lelewal Motel in Yola, it was unanimously agreed by all that in view of the injustice being entrenched in Adamawa state chapter of APC, they have no option other than the dump the party.

While delivering his speech at the occasion, Marwa said he could not live in a party that trampled on people’s rights with impunity, adding that since the entry of Nyako into the party’s fold, injustice became its order.

He said, “The party has been hijacked by Governor Murtala Nyako and there was no fair play in the way and manner the party is being run.

“Our attempts to get the issue addressed proved abortive as the national secretariat of the party only paid a lip service to our complaints as they said as a sitting  governor Nyako will help with the finance of the

party.”  

Marwa said that by hook or crook, the party’s registration exercise was hijacked by Nyako’s loyalists denying ACN and CPC blocks any chance of getting involved in the exercise.

“In nine Local Government Areas, report has it that the registration materials were forcefully confiscated by Nyako’s group at the detriment of other members of the legacy parties,” he added.

He added that Nyako also used the apparatus of government in cajoling members of the party through the Special Assistance (SA) programme package instead of using the resources to develop the state.

He added that all efforts to sit with governor Nyako in other to resolve the anomaly proved abortive as Nyako obstinately refused to reason with him just as he faulted the appointment of the Secretary to the State Government Kobis Ari Thimnu as the Interim State Chairman, saying that the move was to marginalize other stakeholders.

Marwa added that he was making serious consultation with the PDP stakeholders in the state to ensure that his supporters are fully integrated and to avoid the mistakes of the past.

The Interim National Vice Chairman of APC North East Dr. Umar Duhu in his reaction to the decampment of Buba Marwa, said APC is not perturbed by the movement of Marwa to PDP.

He said,  “We are not perturbed by the defection of Marwa to PDP as we believe it is the masses that constitute the chances of the party not big names.

“As an independent person we respect his rights to leave the party but that does not mean that we are losing our sleep as we believe that his departure will not have any impact on our fortunes and winning chances.”