The People’s Democratic Party has said that the party is set take over Gombe State from the ruling All Progressives Congress in the 2023 general elections, following the mass defection recently recorded in the state.
According to the Chairman of Gombe PDP Progressives League, Adam Isa, the current gale of defections from the APC under the Governor Inuwa Yahaya’s administration to the PDP is an indication that the PDP will take over the state, come 2023.
Isa, in a statement issued to newsmen in Kaduna on Tuesday, also commended the governor’s current Adviser on Religious Affairs, Auwal Abdullahi, who recently resigned his appointment and joined the PDP.
“The wind of defection blowing in Gombe State has led to the resignation of the Governor’s current Adviser on Religious Affairs, Sheik Dr. Auwal Abdullahi (Gafakan Akko), even as his supporters reportedly join him,” he said.
The PDP chieftain added, “Fresh reports from the state have revealed that massive resignations in the government are quietly ongoing, to the shock of the Governor, who was said to have frantically reached out to the leadership of the ruling party to act quickly in order to slow down the gale defections, especially in the ruling party structure.”
He attributed to what he termed as “the shift in alliances,” to the mobilisation drives of the PDP Governorship candidate in the state, Hon Jibrin Barde.
He said, “The defectors in large numbers that will be received by Barde’s PDP in the next couple of weeks are believed to be members of the ruling party that have lost faith in the administration of Governor Inuwa Yahaya for what the defectors considered failure of the administration to deliver on its mandate over the years.
“Another influential politician, Hon. Julius Ishaya, who was a former commissioner of Information to Governor Inuwa has also joined the list of progressives in the political history of the State.
“A one-time member of the Gombe State House of Assembly, Honorable Ado Wantos has also decamped to the PDP, to forge new alliance with the Barlrde campaign team against the incumbent Governor ahead of the 2023 governorship elections in the State.
“The former Funakaye Local Government Chairman, Alhaji Kari Bajoga, also defected from APC to the PDP, with the possibility of his supporters and political associates joining the new decampment queue.
“Barde’s mobilisation moves will get further boost if the reception of tens of thousands of APC supporters goes according to planned.
“The supporters of the high profile decampees will join their leaders in droves.With all these, PDP is set to take over Gombe in the forthcoming election.”
