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Real Reason I Left PDP For APC – Bwacha

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3 years ago

Feb 4, 2022.

Real Reason I Left PDP For APC – Bwacha

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Senator representing Taraba South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Emmanuel Bwacha, said he left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to escape the “apparent persecution” of the state governor, Darius Ishaku.

Bwacha, who was until his defection on Thursday, the Senate Deputy Minority Leader, also said the PDP as a national party didn’t offend him but his grouse was with the leadership of the party in Taraba.

This online media platform recalls that Bwacha, on Thursday, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

He spoke on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’.

The lawmaker lamented “deliberate isolation from the governor”, adding that the dispute between himself and the governor was not from his part.

“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.

President Muhammadu Buhari, alongside APC Caretaker Chairman and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, welcomed Bwacha into the APC on Thursday.

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