June 29, (THEWILL) – Zamfara State’s Governor Bello Matawalle, has formally announced his defection to the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Speaking at a rally on Tuesday in Gusau, the state capital, Matawalle said he had been nursing the ambition of leaving his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for several reasons.
“I am now the leader of APC in Zamfara State and I am ready to work with each and every one wishing to contribute to the rapid development of the state,” he said.
The National Caretaker Committee Chairman of APC and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, congratulated Matawalle for defecting to the party.
Buni said, based on the provision of the APC, Governor Matawalle was now the leader of APC in Zamfara State
He also announced that the APC State Caretaker Committee has been dissolved.
“I also want to bring to your notice that as from today, the APC Caretaker committees of Zamfara State from the ward to the state level have been dissolved” Buni said.
On his part, former Governor of the state, Abdul Aziz Yari welcomed Governor Bello Matawalle to APC, adding that he was ready to give all necessary support and cooperation for Matawalle to succeed.
He said: “I want to bring to the notice of each and everyone in Zamfara State that I am not in any way against the defection of Governor Matawalle to our great party.
“I was a Governor for two terms as such, I thank the Almighty Allah for giving me the chance to lead my people for eight years.”
Governor Matawalle joined the APC with all members of the state House of Assembly and National Assembly members except a representative from Anka/Talata-Mafara Federal Constituency who remains in the PDP, the state Deputy Governor, Mahdi Aliyu Gusau, also did not decamp to the APC.
Apart from the Yobe State Governor, Buni, who on duty in doubling as the Interim National Chairman, the rally was attended by the governors of Kogi, Niger, Katsina, Kaduna, Kano, Borno, Ogun, Jigawa, Plateau, and Kebbi State, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, and Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, and others.
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