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Why i left PDP for APC – Popular Senator reveals

by Emerald Nigeria
February 4, 2022
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Emmanuel Bwacha, the Senator representing Taraba South Senatorial District in the red chamber has revealed why he left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

It would be recalled on Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari alongside APC Caretaker Chairman and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, welcomed the senate minority leader into the APC.

Speaking on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme monitored by The PUNCH,  the senator revealed that he left PDP to escape the “apparent persecution” of the state governor, Darius Ishaku.

According to him, PDP as a national party didn’t offend him but his grouse was with the leadership of the party in Taraba.

While lamenting “deliberate isolation from the governor”, Bwacha noted that the dispute between himself and the governor was not from his part.

He said;

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“I actually cannot point out exactly what is his (Ishaku’s) problem with me,” he said, adding that the governor barred public officials from attending his constituency projects and his other political activities.

“We (Ishaku and I) worked together in 2015 but in 2019, suddenly this hate came. I tried to speak to him about issues but it had always earned me hate. I tried to see him at a point but he shut the door at me,” the Senator said, adding that past and present leadership of the PDP didn’t help reconciliatory efforts.

Going further, Bwacha further alleged that Ishaku did all he could to ensure he didn’t return to the Senate in 2019.

He also claimed that the governor has also been against his political progress.

 “I have not made public declaration about becoming a governor but there have been innuendos, and insinuations. People have also been putting pressure on me to run for governor.

And I overheard someone say that the only condition for me to sit with him (Ishaku) is if I would drop my gubernatorial ambition.” He said.

Bwacha said the governor was wrong to have made the condition for them to reconcile one based on his dropping any political ambition.

He said his defection is not about winning an election.

“It is about an environment where you are not being persecuted, where you are given a latitude to operate, a free playing ground.

“My people are not in support of such persecution, they see me going through persecution that is unnecessary.

“If you are staying in an environment where you will not survive, if you remain there, you are doing it at your own peril and I would not be part of such danger, I won’t endanger my political future in an environment where I am not guaranteed a clear future,” he added.

 

ALSO READ:Again, PDP loses big at the National Assembly, see who defected from the party on Wednesday

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