Speaking with Vanguard, Senator Ibrahim, one of the 14 senators who dumped APC, said he would only support and work for President Buhari in 2019, if he became the presidential candidate of the PDP. He said: “That’s a blatant lie from him (Ita Enang). I am not going to work for his re-election unless he is nominated by PDP.
They are just looking for ways to impress the President. First, they claim phony majority in the Senate, now defected senators will work for President Buhari.”
Reacting in the same vein, a member of the House of Representatives, Ali Madaki, PDP Kano, said Ita Enang was lying, noting “we can’t work for Buhari.” Madaki simply said: “How can we work for President Buhari when we are flag bearers of the PDP? The man is on his own.
We can never support Buhari, Enang is on his own and that is our position.” Madaki, who is one of the arrowheads of the defectors, further declared that there was no going back, stressing that “nobody among us agreed to such a deal.” Also reacting, another member of the House, Mark Gbillah, PDP Benue, said Buhari won’t get a single vote “in our constituencies.”
He said: “Buhari will not get a single vote in all our constituencies and that is our common position. Enang spoke for himself because how can we be in PDP and work for Buhari, it is impossible and Nigerians should be wary of people who have spoken so vociferously about Buhari’s constitutional breaches, yet suddenly backed-stabbed us.
“Nigerians should know that there must have been cash inducement to influence such characters in a government that claims to be fighting corruption.”
