Deputy Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto defects to APC with more than 200 supporters

Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto, Deputy Governor, Niger State today with over 200 political office holders and supporters defected to the All Progressive Congress from the PDP.

Announcing his defection to newsmen in Minna, Ibeto said, “I am on my way to welcome our party leader and presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at Minna Airport for his campaign rally in Niger State.”

 

Ibeto attributed his defection to injustice melted out him and other contestants in the state party primaries, describing the exercise as flawed and stage-managed to favour anointed candidates.

He 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”.

“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 Head quarters 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.”

He called on his supporters to be law abiding and not take laws into their own hands.