By Godwin Kingsley, Lafia Nasarawa State Deputy Governor, Dameshi Barau Luka on Tuesday explained why he dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), citing exclusion from state politics.
The deputy governor disclosed this at the state secretariat of the PDP while addressing party supporters and journalists in Lafia.
Dameshi elucidated that his ordeal with Governor Umaru Tanko Al-makura heightened last year when he embarked on a pilgrimage trip with president Goodluck Jonathan and other Christian governors across Nigeria to the Holy land.
“The dark cloud that now looms over our state thickened from October 2013 when President Goodluck Jonathan invited Christian governors and deputies from across the country to accompany him to the state of Israel on Holy pilgrimage.
“The governor misinterpreted this spiritual obligation as plans to unseat him even though he very regularly performs the Hajj”, he said.
The deputy governor ascertained that his decision on the stoppage of executive bills by the APC national leadership to National Assembly members still stands positing that it was used an eclipse by the state leadership of the APC to suspend him from the party.
He also lambasted the leadership of the State’s APC who ‘hurriedly’ suspended him from the party proclaiming that he was not a registered member of the APC and cannot be suspended.
Dameshi also declared that “I will no longer pursue this culture of political uncertainty, disrespect for rules, hatred, outright lies and falsehood, voodoo and abracadabra, politics of exclusion, shadow chasing, ad-holism, haphazardness in my political journey”.
He also postulated that the present state of affairs in the state with its conspicuous rock hard structure of falsehood and deceit would only aggravate the dearth of morality and lead to more confusion.
He however presented a letter of intent to the state chairman of the PDP, Yunana Illiyah, formally informing him of his decision to join the party alongside his supporters.
Receiving the letter, the state chairman of the PDP welcomed the deputy governor back to the party and informed him of his new position as the party leader of the state.
Yunana likened the case of the deputy governor to the biblical prodigal son insinuating that the deputy governor was a founding member of the PDP who have returned back home.
He also seized the opportunity to inform party supporters that Solomon Ewuga, a Senator representing Nasarawa North at the Senate has defected to the PDP.
The chairman added that a grand rally would be held in the state to welcome the returnees by President Goodluck Jonathan.
It would be recalled that the state chairman of the APC, Stanley Buba announced the suspension of the deputy governor on February 3, which has led to the wooing of the deputy governor to the PDP.
