Dumping CPC is an affront to Buhari – Al-Makura

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The Katsina State chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and its four Assembly members have disagreed over the choice of the party’s minority leader in the state House of Assembly. Daily trust gathered that the disagreement forced the Speaker, Ya’u Umar Gwajo Gwajo, to suspend the announcement of the minority leader during the inauguration and election of the leadership of the house last Monday during which he was quoted as saying, “there is little problem which has not been sorted out in the choice of minority leadership.” It was gathered that the party has chosen Dalhatu Shehu from Faskari constituency as minority leader as against the members preferred choice, Abdullahi Mahuta, who was alloted deputy minority leader while the other two were given minority whip and deputy respectively.

Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has dismissed insinuations that he is planning to ditch the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) on whose platform he won the governorship election, saying doing so would amount to an affront on the party’s leader, Muhammadu Buhari.

Soon after the governorship elections in the state, rumours started making the rounds that Almakura, who floored his predecessor, Aliyu Akwe Doma, was planning to return to the PDP which he left to join the CPC before the polls

But he has denied reports that he is having business with the PDP, saying that to contemplate on dumping the CPC, is even an affront at General Muhammadu Buhari, the party leader who he reveres because of his principles, as well as his prominent position in the country as a former head of State.

Al-Makura had at his inauguration dedicated the historic change in Nasarawa to General Buhari whose political ideologies he said had inspired the people to “defeat the fear factor that handed the PDP a red card in the state, 12 years after.”

A press statement by his acting media aide, Abdullahi Ogoshi also denies alleged friction between the new governor and his party, one of the reasons adduced for his speculated plans to dump the party.

“There is absolutely no friction between His Excellency and his party, the CPC that could lead to any consideration to dump the party, barely two weeks after he was sworn in as governor.

“His Excellency is in total and absolute agreement with the principles and people oriented policies of the CPC and is set to implement them for the general well-being of the people of Nasarawa state”, the statement said.

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Dumping CPC is an affront to Buhari – Al-Makura