APC loses minority leader in Gombe Assembly to PDP

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AS the spate of political decampment continues to becloud the political scene of the country, the Minority leader of the Gombe State House of Assembly, Ahmed Usman Haruna of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) has formally dumped the party and declared his defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Ahmed Usman made the declaration during the House plenary on Thursday when he said that his decision followed the injustice that characterized the APC in the State explaining that after the APC’s faulty congresses, the party slammed an unjustified suspension on him on 30th May through blackmail because of his stand for justice.

He further explained that after seeking justice through a protest letter he wrote to the national Secretariat of the APC, he was still denied justice for the undemocratic suspension which led him to take the decision to defect to PDP.

The lawmaker also said that he had come to the realization that the APC has no respect for its constitution and the country’s constitution and that its manifestoes were merely for campaign purposes.

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With these reasons, Ahmed Usman said, “I will not allow myself to be ridiculed or rubbished, I, therefore, announce my defection to the PDP.”

The Speaker, Honourable Abubakar Nasiru Nono and the Majority Leader, Honourable Amos Fabulous, while welcoming him into the PDP, assured him that he and his constituency will never regret such decision.

Amos Fabulous particularly described him as a material that the PDP will love to have in its fold. He thereafter invited Ahmed to the State PDP Secretariat for his ‘baptism’ of fire into the PDP.

However, while reacting to the development, Gombe State APC Public Relations Officer (PRO), Honourable Naomi Joel Awak described the defection as not having any negative effect on the APC.

She said the likes of Ahmed Usman were only used by the opposition to destroy the APC, but having realized their failure, he has now returned to where he belonged.

In her words, “his likes are not truly APC members and I can boldly tell you that with or without Honourable Ahmed in our party, we will win elections in Gombe State and Nigeria in 2019.”