The 2023 governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Individuals’s Party (NNPP) in Gombe State, Khamisu Mailantarki, on Saturday, joined the opposition Individuals’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The transfer comes after Mailantarki resigned from NNPP in July this 12 months, however didn’t instantly be part of one other political occasion.
Talking throughout his reception ceremony on the PDP secretariat in Gombe, Mailantarki mentioned he joined PDP to assist revitalise the occasion to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) within the state in 2027.
Mailantarki alleged that APC authorities on the federal and state ranges has failed woefully in delivering good governance, opining that PDP was the one sturdy occasion able to seizing energy from the APC, therefore his choice to hitch the occasion after quitting NNPP.
He berated the state governor, Inuwa Yahaya, over a few of his administration’s uncompassionate insurance policies comparable to revoking of land titles and compelling civil servants to bear biometric registration on a regular basis at their workplaces, failure of which they don’t seem to be eligible for wage fee.
Based on him, it was unfair to drive staff to go to work 5 occasions a day beneath this era of {economic} hardship with out commensurate salaries.
Additionally talking, the state PDP chairman, Abnor Kwaskebe, who acquired the previous governorship candidate, mentioned his defection was an enormous blessing for the occasion and promised all members a way of belonging.
