{"id":37536,"date":"2021-02-21T18:34:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=37536"},"modified":"2021-02-21T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T16:56:37","slug":"gov-matawalle-refutes-claim-of-dumping-pdp-for-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-matawalle-refutes-claim-of-dumping-pdp-for-apc","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Matawalle refutes claim of dumping PDP for APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Zamfara State Governor, Hon. Bello Mohammed Matawalle has said he has not made any arrangement with anyone to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) .<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a press statement signed and made available to newsmen in Gusau, the state capital by the Director-General, media and public enlightenment Affairs, Government House, Hon. Yusuf Idris Gusau.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Matawalle described the people disseminating \u201cthe unfounded and baseless information as power drunk politicians looking for cheap publicity,\u201d saying that such rumors should be thrown into another waste paper basket as it could not hold any water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not in anyway discussed the issue of defecting to APC with any politician either in the state or elsewhere. My main priority now is to restore peace in the state which disappeared during APC tenure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter all, the terror attacks and banditry came into existence in the State during the unfortunate tenure of APC. Even with the rate of banditry which my administration inherited from the APC, no reasonable person can agree to defect to the party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Matawalle said that the infamous and unpopular politicians like Sagir Hamidu who were propagating the news should wait until he decamped before they could say anything in regard to his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitics is not about damaging one\u2019s personality or government. I am not in politics to damage anybody\u2019s personality and government. It is only premature politicians that do so. Earlier, I never wanted to join issues with failures but for the benefit of doubt I am compelled to do so,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>However, the governor admitted that there are some APC chieftains that have been wooing him to defect to APC but that he had not yet made up his mind to that effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSagir Hamidu does not reside in Zamfara state but comes around during politics, as a result, many Zamfara people do not even know him in person, so what is he bragging about when he has no political supporters?\u201d The governor queried.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Matawalle advised the APC chieftains to put their house in other before fixing blames on everybody, saying that after all, they were the architects of their own failures and misfortune.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the APC members who defected to PDP noticed that APC leaders in the state were the cause of the so many deep cracks in party, and that the chances of APC recovering the State in 2023 was very slim, hence they decamped to PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sagirs in APC should know that politics is a game of number and the PDP in the State has some political permutations that would help them to runway with landslide victory in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime has gone when people like Sagir should be dictating for Zamfara people and controlling their destinies. The people are now wiser than the thinkings of Sagir and his like minds. So, I advise them to make peace with the people they have offended before attacking anybody or government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Zamfara State Governor, Hon. Bello Mohammed Matawalle has said he has not made any arrangement with anyone to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) . 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