Adamawa 2023: We are in APC to sack PDP, say Abdulaziz, Abbo, Ngillari

By Onimisi Alao, Yola

Political bigwigs in Adamawa State who have just been officially received as defectors from other parties to the All Progressives Congress (APC) have vowed to play down on their personal ambitions to present a united APC against the governing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The politicians and all followers of political events in Adamawa State accept a view that disunity within APC caused it to fall from power in 2019, with the PDP as beneficiary and with one of the new returnees to APC, Abdulaziz Nyako as a major factor.

Sen Abdulaziz Nyako who had left the APC towards the 2019 election to become the governorship candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) and who led the ADC to fuse into the APC during the weekend, said he and the other prominent politicians coming into the APC were resolved to forge a united front against PDP.

“From today, we are full-fledged APC members. We must use this reunion to work and produce credible aspirants to contest elective positions in 2023,” Abdulaziz said.

The formal reception for the new APC members which took place at the APC state Secretariat in Yola was also attended by Sen Ishaku Abbo who officially defected to the APC from PDP and former governor Bala Ngillari who also joined the APC from PDP.

Abbo who has a reputation for deep differences with his former party, the PDP and Governor Ahmadu Fintiri even while he was in that party, spoke excitedly of the need to get the PDP out of power in 2023.

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Against widespread view across Adamawa State that Abbo was joining APC to seek its governorship ticket, he said, “We are not desperate politicians who must have power. None of us, in particular, must be governor, but somebody in APC must be governor. We are not after our personal interests. We want to rescue Adamawa.”

Former Adamawa Governor Bala Ngillari who was also coming from the PDP, said although he was governor under PDP (from October 1 2014 to May 29 2015) and he hated jumping from one party to another, he decided to leave for APC because of his faith in it as one with serious-minded people who can push out the current PDP government.

The APC National Caretaker Committee member for Northeast, Prof Tahir Mamman, charged the APC in the state to target two million Adamawa people in the party’s registration exercise.

He asserted, “We want to see at least two million residents of Adamawa as bonafide members of APC in the exercise. By God’s grace, in 2023 it is going to be APC ‘sak’ at all levels.”