Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State on Monday urged Governors Sule Lamido and Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu of Jigawa and Niger states respectively, to have a rethink and join the All Progressives Congress (APC) to save the country from the security challenges bedeviling it.
Addressing a large turnout of party supporters at a zonal rally for the inauguration of the North-west National Executive Committee (NEC) of the APC, staged at the Trade Fair Complex in Sokoto, Kwankwaso actually called on the governors of Jigawa, Niger, Kebbi and Kaduna States to leave the PDP, saying the party had failed Nigerians. He was optimistic that Jigawa and Niger States governors would soon join the APC.
His words, "I am calling on the G7 governors that we started this journey and movement together, especially Lamido and Aliyu to leave the PDP and join us.
"We have been meeting and sharing ideas with Kaduna State Governor, Ramalan Yero, and as such, we are calling on our brothers to come back home because this is where they belong," Kwankwaso said.
The Kano governor posited that Nigeria was bereft of credible leadership at the centre even as he lamented that a good number of Nigerians had been displaced internally as a result of the insurgency in the North. He beckoned on people of the North-west to collaborate so as to end PDP misrule in 2015.
He averred that PDP would be humiliated in the North-west and would become history in 2015, assuring the crowd that people would be adequately mobilized in the zone in order to wrest power from the PDP.
While boosting that the APC was poised to show PDP the exit door and relocate it to the archives in 2015, Kwankwaso said: "PDP has been ruling Nigeria for 16 years but left this country in ruins with insecurity challenges ravaging the North. We have the numbers and the large population to give us the required votes and we are ready to mobilize our people in the North-west to humiliate PDP in the 2015 polls."
Also speaking at the event, the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie Oyegun says the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan had pauperized Nigerians and worsened insecurity in the country.
For the host governor, Aliyu Wamakko, the PDP's time was up, as Nigerians were tired of bad governance and insecurity challenges bedeviling the country.
While urging the national leadership of the party to be firm and determined to wrest power from the PDP in 2015, he stressed that the formation of an alliance was geared towards rescuing the country from the current drift and enable Nigerians sleep with their eyes closed.
"Nigerians are fed up with the PDP because people are hungry. So, I am urging the national leadership of the APC to be resolute and redouble its efforts to wrest power from the PDP," Wamakko said.
His position was re-echoed by the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomole, who informed that the APC was committed to bringing change by ushering in a people-oriented government in 2015.
While speaking, the Deputy National Chairman of the APC, Senator Lawal Shuaibu, said the APC rally was aimed at bringing to an end PDP misrule, Boko Haram insurgency and myriad of problems bedeviling the country in 2015.
The occasion, which was evidently shunned by Muhammadu Buhari, was graced by Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Bello Masari; former Zamfara State Governor, Senator Ahmed Sani Yarima; former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipriye Sylva; members of the National Assembly and top politicians across the North-west states.
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