Mansur Aramide, Gombe
Former Gombe State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman, Shuaibu Sabulu and many members of the party estimated at several thousands including key party stalwarts on Sunday decamped to the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP).
The NNPP gubernatorial candidate, Khamisu Mailantarki, party executives and hundreds of supporters were in Billiri LGA to receive the decampees.
The decampees included: Yila Dankuka, a
former Deputy Chairman, Billiri LGA, Phillips Bataliya and Hon Muhammad Balas.
Others were current and former LGA and wards party officials, former councillors as well as women and youth groups.
Receiving the defectors, Mailantarki assured them of fair and level playing ground in all activities of the party, “especially now that the campaigns will formally commence soon.”
He urged them to garner more support and promote the party and its candidates in all the nooks and crannies of the state.
According to him, “it is only through grassroots mobilization and voters sensitization the NNPP can uproot and defeat the failed ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.”
Speaking while presenting the NNPP membership card to the new members, chairman of the state chapter of the NNPP, Maikano Abdullahi, assured defectors of equal opportunities in the party, assuring that the NNPP would always uphold the tenets justice, fairness and equity.
Speaking for the decampees, Hon. Baba Sabulu said they left PDP for NNPP “because the state needs a better leadership that only Mailantarki can give.
“We all decided to quit and join the NNPP so that we can have better leadership in Gombe State.
“We see Mailantarki as a better alternative for Gombe. He possesses the requisite character and capacity to rescue Gombe from the misrule of the APC.
“He has always been saying the right things and has done the right things in the past,” he said.
