Ex-Taraba Speaker, Dogari, Atiku’s Ally, Dansallah, 3,000 Others Dump APC For PDP

An erstwhile speaker of the Taraba State House of Assembly, Hon. Simon Dogari, alongside other chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state on Sunday dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

One of the chieftains, Mallam Isah Dansallah, an associate of former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, and a founding member of the APC, explained that he defected due to what he called lack of good governance by the ruling party.

“I dump the APC to PDP because the opposition PDP is lesser evil compare with the ruling APC,” he told the Leadership.

“There was a time that I found myself in the APC, I worked for it success in 2015, but the APC has metamorphose and turn into a ghost with crisis all over.

“The APC led government has succeeded in subjecting Nigerians to abject poverty and has successfully divided Nigerians along religious and ethnic lines.

“People are dying every day with various sickness because of depression as some people can’t even afford a square meal a day.”

Also, while speaking with the party members at the PDP secretariat in Jalingo, Dogari said he decided to dump the APC with about 3, 000 of his supporters due to lingering disagreement in the state chapter of the party.

He noted that while the APC leadership in the state lacked focus, the PDP, on the other hand, had a sense of direction and commitment to progressive ideals of social and political well-being and economic development.

“We have seen the sense of direction and commitment for progress by the PDP and decided to join the party to enable us contribute our quota for the development of the state,” he said.

Receiving the defectors, State PDP Chairman, Mr. Victor Bala Kona urged them to feel at home, saying most of the people involved were members of the PDP before they left for the APC.

Bala assured them that the PDP was at the moment, totally committed to internal democracy so as to win the confidence of the electorate and thanked them for having confidence in the PDP, assuring that they would be treated equally as members of one family.

The chairman expressed optimism that PDP would win all elections in the state and the 2019 presidential election.

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