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Another APC bigwig, Pres. Buhari’s Senator in Kastina State, quits party for PDP

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Amid gale of defections and political realignments, a serving APC Senator representing President Muhammadu Buhari’s senatorial district in Kastina State has quit the party.

Senator Ahmed Kaita, an ally of Buhari from the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), on Thursday announced his defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

According to him, his defection is due to the “gradual loss of credibility” of Governor Aminu Masari’s administration, and his delay in conducting the local council election in the state.

Persecondnews had reported that Zamfara ex-Governor Abdulaziz Yari, and Zamfara Senator Kabiru Marafa had defected from APC to the PDP last week.

Also, a former Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung in President Muhammadu Buhari administration first term, has APC.

Dalung submitted his letter of resignation from the APC to the Ward Chairman of the party in SabonGida Ward, Langtang South council area of Plateau State.

The letter dated April 1, 2022, read, “This is to convey my withdrawal of membership from the All Progressives Congress with effect from the date of this notice.

“It is worthy of mention that recent developments in the party conflict with my core principles of values which define the basis of allegiance to the party.

“Of note is the fact that internal democracy is critical to the survival of representative democracy without which political participation remains a mirage.”

The Kastina Senator, the latest of the high-profile defections, in a statement signed by his media adviser, Abdulkadir Lawal, also cited refusal of the Masari-led administration to “uphold the basic foundation of democracy” and inability to address insecurity and poverty as other reasons for his leaving the APC.

“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, Senator Kaita has followed the recent events in Katsina with keen interest and deep concern.

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

The Senator had in 2011 represented Kankia/Ingawa/Kusada federal constituency of Katsina on the platform of CPC in the House of Representatives.

 

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