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The Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, Mustapha Ribadu, has said the defection of politicians from the party won’t affect the APC chances in the 2027 general election.
Speaking to Arewa PUNCH, he stated that despite the defection, the APC foundation remains solid.
Ribadu said the the exit of a few members to other political parties can not affect the election fortunes of the party in state, stressing that winning elections is not about individuals, but about the grassroots people that are behind the party.
He said: “The people that left the party, who are their followers that followed them? he queried.
“Senator Jibrilla Bindow was a governor with over 21 commissioners, 21 local government chairmen, over 700 aides, over 200 councillors, but none of them joined him to his new party, so can you say Adamawa APC has lost anything?”
He said that despite being a former governor and hailing from Mubi, Bindow lost his polling unit, ward, his local government and the entire northern senatorial zone during the last general elections.
The APC Chieftain pointed out that Senator Aisha Binani, as a governorship candidate during the last general election lost her polling unit and her ward, revealing that Senator Aisha Binnani’s ambassadors have changed their names to Adamawa APC ambassadors.
“Who are now her followers that joined her in the new party?” he questioned.
“We can see that the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, left the People’s Democratic Party to another party, his biological son Adamu Atiku is still in PDP as commissioner, just as all his political allies are still in PDP. So a one-man squad is of no use in politics,” he said.
According to him, big family names are no longer important in Adamawa State politics due to the years of deceit the people suffered from such big names in the past.
He, however, admitted that there was what he described as controllable and manageable disagreement in the Adamawa APC.
Meanwhile, Ribadu stated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has the constitutional power to replace Vice President Kashim Shettima with any individual from any part of the country.
He said: “What we are interested in is good governance. It is not about where the vice president comes from or who is the vice president. If the president brings someone from Lagos State who can work for him in the interest of Nigeria, he should pick the person.
“In the United States, there are times a president and vice president would emerge from the same zone. What is paramount is good governance.”
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