Deputy Governor of Niger, Alhaji Ahmed
Ibeto, and over 2oo political office holders
have defected from the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party to the major opposition
party, All Progressives Congress.
Among those who defected from PDP
alongside the deputy governor are serving
members of National
Assembly, members
of State’s House of Assembly, former
commissioners and former local
governments chairmen.
Ibeto announced his defection to
newsmen in Minna, on Monday, January
19, saying: “I am on my way to welcome
our party leader and presidential
candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at
Minna Airport for his campaign rally in
Niger State.”
The deputy governor stated that his
defection was in response to the injustice
meted to him and other contestants in the
state party primaries, an exercise which
he described as flawed and stage-
managed to favour anointed candidates.
Ibeto said: “The electoral process that
threw up Alhaji Umar Nasko as PDP
governorship candidate was not in
accordance with the PDP electoral law
and the constitution.”
“It is true we are defecting to APC because
the primaries conducted were not in
accordance wirth the PDP constitution.
Myself and other aggrieved party
members decided to petition the National
Headquaters of the party on the outcome
of the governorship primaries with a view
to addressing the obvious injustice but
met a brickwall.”
“We were expecting justice from the
party’s national office but nothing was
forthcoming, hence we decided to join the
APC.”
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