Suspended
Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, will not quit the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, for any other one, Saturday Vanguard learnt
yesterday.
An aide to
the governor hinted that those who spearheaded the suspension of the governor
might have made a big mistake, as their antics to edge him out of the party
would not work.
Wamakko’s
aide spoke just as it was learnt that majority of PDP leaders in the North West
zone were planning to ditch the party and work with the opposition following
the perceived victimisation of members alleged to be opposed to President
Goodluck Jonathan’s plans to contest the 2015 election.
The zone is
made up of Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Kano and Jigawa States.
Apart from
Kaduna and Katsina, most of the states in the zone, voted for the opposition
All People’s Party, APP, which later became the All Nigeria People’s Party,
ANPP, during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s first term in office in 1999.
Specifically,
Sokoto State was an ANPP state until Wamakko was wooed into the PDP in 2007.
Before, bringing Wamakko into the PDP from the ANPP, the ruling party had
adopted the current Deputy Governor of the state, Alhaji Muktar Shagari
as its flag bearer, but the new arrangement later saw Shagari as
subordinating himself to Wamakko, to ensure victory for the PDP at the
polls then.
“Let me tell
you the simple truth; Governor Wamakko is going nowhere. He is the one who
lifted the PDP from failure to success in Sokoto State. By the time Obasanjo
drafted him to the PDP, the party was losing election as a trademark. I suspect
that those who do not wish the PDP well are the ones advising the Presidency
and the National Working Committee, NWC, of the PDP to suspend those who have
been helping them to win elections.
“I can tell
you that rather than leave the PDP for any other party, Wamakko will still
remain a strong force to be reckoned with in the PDP. You cannot build a house
and leave it for onlookers,” the governor’s aide added.
According to
the aide, it was even laughable for a party, which parades itself as the
harbinger of democracy and the biggest in Africa to suspend Wamakko while he
was on a trip to the Netherlands in pursuit of the state’s interest.
“We suspect
strongly that the opposition might have penetrated the PDP to destroy it with
very destructive advice. But we are certain that this problem will soon be
resolved as we approach the next election,’’ the top member of the governor’s
cabinet stated.
Source: Vanguard
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