Buhari’s Senator Dumps APC For PDP

In a major political statement, the senator representing President Muhammadu Buhari in the Senate, Senator Ahmad Kaita (Katsina North) has defected from the All Progressives Congress, APC to the Peoples democratic Party (PDP).

Senator Kaita blamed what he described as the failure of the Aminu Masari led state government to provide a level playing ground for all democratic players for his action. He also cited the incapacity of the state government to provide a robust challenge to the insecurity that has bedeviled his constituency.

Senator Kaita’s defection to the PDP was announced in a statement issued by his media aide, Abdulkadir Lawal.

Katsina North senatorial zone comprises 12 local government areas, including Daura, President Muhammad Buhari’s hometown.

Senator Kaita was elected to the 8th Senate in 2018 following the death of Senator Mustapha Bukar who was himself elected senator in 2015 to replace the incumbent minister of aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika who is a nephew of President Buhari.

While noting that his defection to the PDP was in protest at the marginalization of critical stakeholders in the constituency, he was, however, quiet on efforts made to bring the constituency’s most prominent personality into resolving the crisis.

He said:

“As a loyal party man and responsive democrat whose expansive support base in his constituency has remained pivotal to his passion for the reciprocal growth and development of his people, Distinguished Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita has followed the recent events in Katsina state with keen interest and deep concern.

“Of notable implication among many of this numerous concerns is the gradual loss of credibility in Governor Masari-led administration, particularly in the avowed refusal to conduct local government elections across the state in time.

“The wilful refusal of the administration to uphold the basic foundation of democracy has also found expression in the marginalisation of critical stakeholders by the state government and the leadership of the party at the state level.

“The recent Congresses at state and ward levels, with no identified genuine pro-government delegates are clearly a rape of grassroots politicians and genuine party foot-soldiers who were rigged out of open contest.

“The total absence of a level playing field speaks volumes about an already orchestrated decline to antidemocratic principles and challenges every good conscience including ours. All politics is local.

“As an advocate of transparency, accountability and continuous entrenchment of popular will, Senator Kaita cannot afford to continue sharing the tent of undemocratic merchandise clearly being executed against his people by the state government and party leadership.

“A clear stock taking of where Katsina state stands today, is already enough burden on good conscience. Our good people, in their millions have excused deprivation, poverty and hunger for too long.

“They have endured the risk to their lives and wellbeing imposed by the incapacity of the state government to tackle insecurity head on.

“They have been denied enough, already, by the state government. We cannot deny them their right of choice. The serial denial of the people’s mandate at the recent Congresses among other related developments has finally found expression in our answer to the clarion call of our people to vacate the APC following very wide consultations.

“Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita is not a bandwagon politician. His exemplary and robust representation in the Nigerian Senate is to the admiration of all, and with significant, visible impacts in the areas of infrastructural and human capital development across the three Senatorial zones of the state. There is a room to do more.”

Meanwhile, the defection of the senator representing Buhari to defect is bound to elicit interested commentaries.

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