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I Will Remain In PDP Till I Die – Ex Niger State Governor, Babangida

The former Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu has vowed to remain in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the rest of his life.

Babangida Aliyu, who spoke in Minna after the defection of 34,826 politicians to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), including the deputy chairman of PDP in the state, Aminu Yusuf, said: “I have no intention of defecting to the APC, because I believe in the PDP.”

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that many of the politicians who defected to the APC were mainly Babangida Aliyu’s close allies in the state.

The former governor said that he had the opportunity of decamping to the APC ahead of the 2015 general elections when he led the G-7 Governors, but did not do so because of his belief in the PDP.

“What we protested then was to correct some of the abnormalities in PDP, but not to defect to the APC. If I were a selfish politician, I would have defected to the APC then. Maybe I would have become a minister now,’’ he said.

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He noted that the PDP made him a governor, and that it was a strong political party if not for internal wrangling that made it to lose the 2015 election.

The former governor said the party had started working toward correcting the wrongs at the various levels.

Source: NAN