The Deputy Governor of Niger State, Ahmed Musa Ibeto, has dumped his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, for the All Progressives Congress, the Eagleonline reports.
Before his defection, Ibeto contested the PDP governorship ticket in the state, but lost because his boss, Governor Babangida Aliyu, did not back his candidacy.
Ahmed Nasko is currently the party’s governorship candidate in the state. DAILY POST gathered that over 200 PDP members in the state left with the Deputy Governor.
Announcing his exit to his new found party, the APC, Ibeto said, “I am on my way to welcome our party leader and presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at Minna Airport for his campaign rally in Niger State.”
He said he was defecting because of the injustice melted out him and other contestants in the state party primaries, describing the exercise as flawed and stage-managed to favour anointed candidates.
Ibeto said, “The electoral process that threw up Alhaji Umar Nasko as PDP governorship candidate was not in accordance with the PDP electoral law and the constitution,”he said.
“It is true we are defecting to APC because the primaries conducted were not in accordance wirth the PDP constitution. Myself and other aggrieved party members decided to petition the National Headquaters of the party on the outcome of the governorship primaries with a view to addressing the obvious injustice but met a brickwall.
“We were expecting justice from the party’s national office but nothing was forthcoming, hence we decided to join the APC.”(Daily Post)
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