Last Man Standing: Shagari Dumps PDP For APC

The only surviving member of the old People’s Democratic Party PDP in Sokoto state and former Minister of water resources, Barrister Mukhtar Shehu Shagari has formally dumped the party for All Progressives Congress APC.

Shagari who was a former Minister of water resources in the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo received the APC membership card from the party secretary Abubakar Yabo in the company of other state APC executives.

Shagari the longest serving Minister of water resources in the cabinet of former president Obasanjo was a founding member of the People’s Democratic Party PDP and has been in the party for over 25 years until this l August when he decided to adjust his seat to APC.

Those who care to speak on the former Minister’s recent defection to APC blamed the national body of the party for not being fair and just to Shagari despite his fidelity to the party leadership.

GWG.ng reports that after obtaining the party’s governorship ticket in 2007, that Shagari surrendered the ticket to Senator Aliyu Wamakko under a deal that brought the latter from the then All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP.

The APC state secretary Alhaji Abubakar Yabo confirmed that the former Minister and former Deputy Governor of the state has received his Party membership card which qualifies him as a dully registered member of his new party.

Shagari’s membership of the APC reads ” All progressives Congress APC Justice, peace and Unity. Registration form, “Mukhtar Shehu Shagari (CFR) SOKO/SGR/014/26001 dated 27th May 2023.

The Sokoto state leadership of the PDP while reacting to the defection of the former Minister described the action of the former Deputy Governor as an act of betrayal and that, the former Minister left the party alone without his followers.

According to the publicity secretary of the party  Alhaji Hassan Sahabi Sanyinnawal, the defection of the former Minister would not in any way weaken the party or change anything in the state party structures, as PDP remained the only and most formidable opposition in the state, adding that the Ambassadors of the Party at both state and national Assemblies are the most vibrant and credible representatives of the people of Sokoto state.

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