He also alleged that the main opposition party was a political fraud “that has lost its soul and cannot be touched or seen.” Shekarau, who spoke at his formal declaration to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Abuja, boasted that no intimidation, blackmail or character assassination would change his vision.
He said: “Some people want to pocket the party when the constitution of the party cannot be found anywhere on the streets of this country. We cannot see ourselves belonging to a platform where we have been made to pocket others. There is nowhere in the constitution of APC that said X and Y are the leaders of the party.”
Tinubu and General Buhari are often seen and referred to as the leaders of the APC. The former governor also alleged that the APC had no structure, challenging the leadership of the party to produce the constitution and manifesto of the party if there was any.
“Some people wanted to pocket the party; that was why the constitution of the party is yet to see the light of the day. “The soul of the APC is lost. It cannot be touched or seen.
The APC constitution is a political fraud. There is no management at any level of APC, this is the issue we raised and this is what we challenged. I did all I could do to salvage the APC, with no results.
I refused to keep quiet in the face of the shenanigans going on in the APC.” He however said that the decision to dump APC was jointly reached with his supporters in Kano and across the country.
Also speaking at the occasion, former Sokoto State governor, Atahiru Bafarawa, who also defected to PDP recently, said that the APC has now become the old PDP.
He lambasted the leadership of the party for parading themselves as leaders of the party, contrary to the provisions of the party’s constitution. Bafarawa added that they were in PDP to rebuild the party.
by OBIORA IFOH
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