Kwankwaso’s Ally Defects To PDP

A few weeks to the presidential election, a long-time ally of Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) Dr Babayo Liman who is also the north east secretary of the party has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Addressing journalists yesterday in Gombe, Liman declared that he would henceforth work for the victory of the PDP presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the upcoming presidential election slated for February.

Liman who was a member of the NNPP presidential campaign council said he decided to resign from the NNPP and defected to PDP to support the activity and candidature of Atiku.

He claimed that he registered more than 3.6 million people from the north east into the NNPP promising that he would go round the region and mobilize them to join Atiku Abubakar’s team.

“I am resigning my appointment as the northeast zonal secretary of the NNPP, as a member of the presidential campaign council of the NNPP and as a coordinator of the Kwankwasiyya in the zone.

“We have nothing to do with NNPP and Kwankwasiya again, not only me defected, but also the zonal public relations officer Ibrahim Tal. He also resigned his appointment to support Atiku Abubakar with our supporters as you can see.

“I want to seize this opportunity to urge the more than 600,000 NNPP members we have in Gombe State to defect and obtain PDP membership cards,” he said.

He also called on Kwankwaso to withdraw from the race and support Atiku opining that the PDP candidate has more capacity to salvage the country from dwindling economy in view of his track records in the past as the vice president of Nigeria.