ICYMI: Jega is welcome to PRP — Balarabe Musa

FORMER governor of old Kaduna State and chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of People’s Redemption Party (PRP), Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has said that it was a welcome development to receive former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, into the party.

Jega had a fortnight ago announced his membership as well as committee chairmanship position of PRP in order to strengthen the party ahead of future general election.

However, Musa quickly added that the former INEC boss should not forget in a hurry that the PRP he is romancing now, he once deregistered it, which led to court cases.

The former Kaduna State governor fielded questions from newsmen who paid him a Sallah homage in his residence on Monday.

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Musa had about two years ago relinquished national chairmanship position of the party on health grounds and settled for BoT position.

He said though the party membership and reorganisation was thrown open sometime ago to attract national outlook, he only learnt of Jega’s entry into the party on pages of newspapers.

He said, “Professor Jega was the INEC chairman, and under his chairmanship, PRP was deregistered. It became a big struggle for us.

“We approached the court, and the court restated the party. But we have to sue the INEC chairman for contempt of court because when court gave the judgment that our party should be restated, he refused to give us the recognition.