By Garko Aminu.
The Sokoto State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress,Hon. Isa Sadiq Achida, has said the party was not disturbed over the decamp of some of its members to the Peoples Democratic Party PDP.
Achida the Turakin Achida, stated this during a Press Conference in Sokoto, said the reception organized to receive the APC decampees into the PDP on Sunday 26th of June 2022 was “a non event and a laughable affair.”
According to him, the development has, however, signaled “a battle line between the APC and the masses of Sokoto State on the one hand, and the selfish political mercenaries and their pay masters on the other hand.”
He said: “The political wanderers that staged the show of shame last Sunday, danced naked in the market square, which only ended in inflicting incurable political injury on themselves and nailing their political coffins.
“We are happy to see the formal departure of PDP moles, whose assignment has failed and who in the end, shamefully went home with their tails between their legs.
“We know all the defectors. They are people who have been rejected by their communities.
“They have no political value at State, Local Government or even at Ward levels.
“The various speeches they made at the event portrayed them as bad sportsmen who should have no place in any democratic setting. Politics is like sports, where there are always winners and losers.
“Unfortunately, these are selfish individuals, who are only interested in their personal comfort, rather than the welfare of the people they claim to represent.
“It instructive to note that none of the so-called decampees gave any acceptable reason that attracted him to the PDP bandwagon.
The chairman described the decampees as people who “have turned their backs on those that were instrumental to bringing them into political limelight.”
“Among them are people who became Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after being single handedly nominated by Senator Wamakko. There are also in the group of those who were single handedly sponsored into the State and National Assemblies, with many of them being returned for more than two tenures, all courtesy of Senator Wamakko.
According to him, the step taken by the decampees were parts of familiar happenings that further strengthened, rather than weakened Senator Wamakko’s resolve to render more help, whenever and wherever the need arises.
He wondered why the Sokoto State government abandoned the ongoing projects, such as the Illela Garage- More-Isa junction road and bridge, the Rijiya Dorowa overhead bridge and the Runjin-Sambo overhead bridge.
Others he noted are the State University Teaching Hospital and the Girls Secondary School in Kasarawa, adding that all these projects were ” abandoned in spite of the several revaluations and cost increases, over and above the original contract sums.”
“Equally, we reject the outright sale of the Buzaye mechanics village, along J. Allen Avenue, Sokoto and will take every available legal means to make sure that the mechanics are not ejected from where they earn their legitimate means of living”, according to the chairman.
The chairman assured the people of the state that “the All Progressives Congress APC is continuously waxing stronger by the day, both at State and National levels.
“We wish to draw the attention of our teeming supporters that the political journey towards the 2023 General Elections is only just about to begin and that those who rush to early false celebrations, are living in a fool’s Paradise and stand to be disappointed.”
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
