El-Rufai: Defection of nPDP members won’t affect Buhari’s chances in 2019
Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai has said that the defection of members of the nPDP from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), cannot affect the chances of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 election.
Members of the “New PDP” who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the APC in 2013, include five governors, some former governors, then Speaker of the House of Representatives and some members of the National Assembly.
It will be recalled that last Wednesday, some members of the “nPDP” wrote a letter to the National Chairman of the APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, lamenting the lack of appreciation of their contributions to the success of the APC and Mr Buhari in the 2015 general elections.
Reacting to the claim, a splinter group of the nPDP has since distanced itself from the claims of marginalisation. A splinter group led by a former governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Adamu, made this known on Monday at the national secretariat of the ruling party after it submitted a letter noting the fortunes of the nPDP bloc under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Speaking with State House correspondents after meeting with Mr Buhari on Tuesday, the Kaduna governor said the president had been winning states where the former governors came from since 2003.
He also said Mr Buhari will win those states, ”with or without the support of the ex-governors.”
Members of the “New PDP” who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the APC in 2013, include five governors, some former governors, then Speaker of the House of Representatives and some members of the National Assembly.
It will be recalled that last Wednesday, some members of the “nPDP” wrote a letter to the National Chairman of the APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, lamenting the lack of appreciation of their contributions to the success of the APC and Mr Buhari in the 2015 general elections.
Reacting to the claim, a splinter group of the nPDP has since distanced itself from the claims of marginalisation. A splinter group led by a former governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Adamu, made this known on Monday at the national secretariat of the ruling party after it submitted a letter noting the fortunes of the nPDP bloc under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Speaking with State House correspondents after meeting with Mr Buhari on Tuesday, the Kaduna governor said the president had been winning states where the former governors came from since 2003.
He also said Mr Buhari will win those states, ”with or without the support of the ex-governors.”
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