AS political permutations for the 2019 general elections increase, candidates and their parties have continued to devise means of wooing support for their candidacy a development that has brightened the chances of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) winning the governorship election in Gombe State following the defection into the party of a former governorship aspirant of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), Nafiu Bala Gombe.
Also not fewer than 200 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Shongom Local Area of the State have declared their loyalty to the opposition APC in the state.
While speaking to Journalists on the latest development, the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mrs Naomi Joel Awak said this has increased the party’s popularity in the state and shown that it is ready to take over the leadership in the forthcoming elections.
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However, while giving reasons for his defection to the APC, Nafiu Bala Gombe, who was also the National Secretary of the DPP, said he has resigned from his office in the party and has switched tent to the APC because his former party has lost focus and direction.
Nafiu Bala Gombe explained in a statement made available to newsmen in Gombe that, “I withdraw from contesting for the office of Governor of Gombe state which I had earlier indicated interest. I fully lend my support to the candidate of the All progressives Congress in Gombe State, Alhaji Mohammed Inuwa Yahaya.”
The State Chairman of the APC, Mr Nitte Amangal, while receiving over 250 members of the PDP into the APC in Shongom Local Government Area said that the decampees have seen the light and are willing to join forces in taking Nigeria to the next level and change the governance of Gombe State for the better.
He said they are now bonafide members of the APC with the same rights as other older members adding that party now has the stronger force to win the forthcoming elections.
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