- The PDP has lost one of its chieftains, Sa’ad Tahir, to the APC
- The former deputy governor described the APC as home, saying he was now politically comfortable in the new party
- He promised to do everything to ensure the APC’s victory in 2019
Alhaji Sa’ad Tahir, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) in Adamawa, has defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Governor Mohammed Bindow of Adamawa confirmed the development during the inauguration of Menene Buhari-Bindow Ne 2019, northeast campaign office on Tuesday in Yola.
Bindow said that the defection of the former PDP governorship aspirant together with some stalwarts of PDP in the state was a sign of victory for the APC come 2019 general elections.
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“Today, I am announcing the decampment of my brother, Alhaji Sa’ad Tahir, the PDP governorship aspirant in the recent party’s primaries. Tahir has returned home and he is highly welcome," Bindow said.
He said the APC in the state would fix a date to organise a befitting reception for the defectors.
In his remarks, Tahir, who was also the deputy to former governor, Bala Ngillari, said that he was now politically comfortable in the new party he had joined.
Tahir said that APC-led administration would be a party to beat in the 2019 elections, assuring Gov. Bindow that he and his supporters would do everything possible to ensure APC’s win in the forthcoming elections .
Earlier, Alhaji Mansur Toungo, an APC chieftain, said that the office was dedicated to the Buhari and Bindow 2019 campaign. He said the office would serve as a Centre for Excellence from where northeast campaign activities would be carried out and monitored.
Meanwhile, Governor Nasir El-Rufai said his reelection in the 2019 Kaduna state governorship poll is almost a done deal despite all the people that have been upset by some policies of his administration.
Speaking as a special guest at the 2018 National Council on Finance and Economic Development (NACOFED) conference which held in Kaduna on Monday, November 26, El-Rufai said getting reelected as the governor of the state is not paramount in his agenda, but doing the right thing is.
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“In spite of all the risks we have taken and all the people we are supposed to have upset, the election on March 2, 2019, as far as Kaduna state is concern, is almost a done deal,” the governor said.
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