08/04/18

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Gombe State Governor Hassan Dankwambo has declared his intention to contest the presidential election in 2019.

He made the declaration on Saturday at a consultation meeting with officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the North East region of the country.

Governor Dankwambo also reacted to the recent defection of the Senate President and three governors of the All Progressives Party (APC), as well as some members of the National Assembly to the opposition party.

He noted that the defection was a reflection of the fact that the PDP has been reformed and repositioned, and urged existing members to welcome the new ones.

“All defectors should be accepted with an open heart and be given an equal opportunity as others who have been in the party”.

The governor was of the opinion that the next president should come from the North-eastern party of the country.

He also advised all interested candidates from the zone should be allowed to showcase themselves while the most qualified should emerge.

The meeting was attended by the PDP North East Zonal chairman and the party’s National Deputy Chairman (North East) among other leaders.

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Ex PDP chairman, Ahmed Makarfi


Former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Caretaker Committee, Ahmed Makarfi has condemned several calls for the resignation of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

He described the call for Saraki’s resignation as an attempt to breach the constitution of Nigeria.

His comment comes after the defection of the Senate President from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the opposition party.

Makarfi stated that the position of the Senate President is a constitutional matter and not a party affair.

He disclosed this on Saturday in a meeting with stakeholders at the party’s secretariat in Minna, the Niger State capital, where he was seeking support for his presidential ambition.

He accused the APC of attempting to usurp power by trying to hunt down those who defected from the party.

He claimed that the current administration has failed in developing the country.

“The APC administration has not done anything to develop infrastructures in the country.

” The roads are blocked, the waterways and railways have not been revived”, he added.

When asked if he will leave the opposition party, Makarfi said, “If I leave PDP, I leave politics, If I wanted to defect I would have done that long before now”.

He called on the leadership of the PDP to carefully manage the defections saying if it’s not properly managed it could have some negative effects on the party.

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Pictures on Twitter and Facebook about the usually quiet city of Sokoto, showed the main roads in traffic gridlocks, as thousands of All Progressives Congress faithful awaited Senator Aliyu Wammako to address a mega rally.
Senator Wammako, a former governor between 2007 and 2015, will arrive from Abuja.
He is the de facto leader of the APC in the state and the rally was to explode the impression that incumbent Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal was a major factor.
The crowd waiting outside the airport for Wammako
Tambuwal, shunning the advice of Wammako, his godfather, on Tuesday committed political apostasy by leaving the party, to join the Peoples Democratic Party, in pursuit of a presidential ambition.  He left with 18 members of the state legislature and some members of the House of Representatives.
But his deputy, the three senators from the state, the party chairman refused to jump ship with him.

The traffic inside the city, all for Wammako and APC

Today’s rally is designed to show who really controls Sokoto politics: Wammako or Tambuwal?
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Even before he gets a possible PDP nomination for 2019 presidential race, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s bid has already hit some heavy bumps and storms.
His former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo  said Atiku should never count on him to support his latest bid to actualise his life-long ambition of being elected the president of Nigeria.
In an interview with Premium Times, Obasanjo swore he will never support Atiku and the doctor of theology also invoked  God to buttress his position:
“How can I be on the same side with Atiku?” Mr Obasanjo asked. “To do what?”
“If I support Atiku for anything, God will not forgive me. If I do not know, yes. But once I know, Atiku can never enjoy my support,” he added.
Obasanjo’s pronouncement comes barely two weeks after Mr Abubakar declared his intention to run for president and weeks after a photo-op between him and Obasanjo at an event on China Africa relations, organised by Gusau Institute in Abuja.
“I do not have personal grudges with anyone,” Mr Obasanjo said. “If you do not do well for Nigeria, you do not do well for all of us.”
“It is not a question of working with or not working with an individual,” he said. “If you are working for the good of Nigeria, I am working with you. If you are not working for the good of Nigeria it does not matter who you are I am not working with you.”
“Most of you do not understand the way I operate,” Obasanjo said. “And I thought your own paper will understand better.”
“I know Atiku very well. And I have mentioned my position with Atiku. My position has not changed,” he said.
On a personal note, he added, “If my children are getting married, he has sent representatives. If his children are getting married, I have sent representatives. That is social. That is not political.
But “on political ground, my position has not changed. If I support Atiku for a political office other than the one I supported him in the past when I did not know him,” maybe, but not “now that I know him, God will not forgive me.”
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