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APC looses yet another Stalwart to PDP in Katsina



As the 2023 General Elections draws nearer, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken another hit as one of it's political bigwig, Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita (APC, Katsina North) dumps the  party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Kaita, who represents Katsina North, where President Muhammadu Buhari hails from, announced his defection from the ruling APC in a statement by his media aide, Abdulkadir Lawal.

Babba Kaita in the statement cited the need to provide succour and provision of democracy dividends to his people as part of the reasons he has joined the PDP.

According to him, after wide consultation, he came to terms with the fact that only in PDP will he be able to achieve his determined desire and opportunity to provide for his people, relieving them of what he described as abject  poverty  they are currently facing.

Babba Kaita was elected to the 8th Senate in 2018 following the death of Senator Mustapha Bukar from same Senatorial zone.

In 2019, he was re-elected to the 9th Senate after defeating his opponent, Hon Usman Mani of the PDP. He currently chairs the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND.

Please find attached below the Press Statement:

PRESS STATEMENT ON THE FORMAL DECLARATION BY SENATOR AHMAD BABBA KAITA ON HIS MOVEMENT FROM THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC) TO THE PEOPLES' DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP)

Today opens a fresh page in our match to genuinely entrench democracy and significantly affirm the very eloquent voice of the people on whose mandate we have served over the last four years. 

As a loyal party man and responsive democrat whose expansive support base in his constituency has remained pivotal to his passion for the reciprocal growth and development of his people, Distinguished Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita has followed the recent events in Katsina state with keen interest and deep concern. Of notable implication among many of this numerous concerns is the gradual loss of credibility in Governor Masari-led administration, particularly in the avowed refusal to conduct local government elections across the state in time.

The willful refusal of the administration to uphold the basic foundation of democracy has also found expression in the marginalisation of critical stakeholders by the state government and the leadership of the party at the state level. The recent Congresses at state and ward levels, with no identified genuine pro-government delegates are clearly a  rape of grassroots politicians and genuine party foot-soldiers who were rigged out of open contest. The total absence of a level playing field speaks volumes about an already orchestrated decline to antidemocratic principles and challenges every good conscience including ours. All politics is local. 

As an advocate of transparency, accountability and continuous entrenchment of  popular will, Senator Kaita cannot afford to continue sharing the tent of undemocratic merchandise clearly being executed against his people by the state government and party leadership.

A clear stock taking of where Katsina state stands today, is already enough burden on good conscience. Our good people, in their millions have excused deprivation, poverty and hunger for too long. They have endured the risk to their lives and wellbeing imposed by the incapacity of the state government to tackle insecurity headon. They have been denied enough, already, by the state government. We cannot deny them their right of choice. The serial denial of the people's mandate at the recent Congresses among other related developments has finally found expression in our answer to the clarion call of our people to vacate the APC following very wide consultations. 

Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita is not a bandwagon politician. His exemplary and robust representation in the Nigerian Senate is to the admiration of all, and with significant, visible impacts in the areas of infrastructural and human capital development across the three Senatorial  zones of the state. There is a room to do more. 

The fresh page from the decision to join the Peoples' Democratic Party represents the ideals of representativeness in mandate, goodwill and an even more determined desire and opportunity to provide succour, comfort and the much-needed dividends of democracy to the people. 

Thank you.

Signed…

Malam Abdulkadir Lawal

Media Adviser to Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita.


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