Niger State Deputy Alhaji Ibeto and 200 others Defect from PDP to APC

Ahmed Ibeto
                          

The Deputy Governor of Niger State Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto has defected from the People Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress (APC). He defected to APC with 200 political office holders from PDP. Among the people that defected with him are serving members of the National and state Assembly, former state commissioners, and former local government Chairmen. 
Among his reasons for defection is injustice meted out to him and other candidates during the just concluded state primaries and he described the exercise as stage managed. 
Ibeto said, “The electoral process that threw up Alhaji Umar Nasko as PDP governorship candidate was not in accordance with the PDP electoral law and the constitution,”he said.
“It is true we are defecting to APC because the primaries conducted were not in accordance with the PDP constitution. Myself and other aggrieved party members decided to petition the National Headquarters of the party on the outcome of the governorship primaries with a view to addressing the obvious injustice but met a brick wall.
“We were expecting justice from the party’s national office but nothing was forthcoming, hence we decided to join the APC.”  

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