AFTER weeks of discussions with leaders of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sokoto State
Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, will defect to the
opposition party, early next week.
Specifically, and barring last-minute hitches,
sources close to the former Speaker of the
House of Representatives, who was elected on
the platform of the ruling All Progressives
Congress, APC, said he will defect on Sunday.
Penultimate week, Tambuwal, alongside the
Kwara State Governor, Abdufatah Ahmed, met
with national leaders of the PDP.
Considered to be angling for the presidency in
2019, the governor is said not to be in the good
books of some powers in the presidency, said to
have been behind recent subtle media attacks
on the governor over his policies in Sokoto
State among others.
The hitherto peaceful caliphate woke up to
attacks by unknown persons who invaded the
state from a border town. After the mayhem, no
fewer than 35 people were killed, thousands of
people were displaced and several houses and
other property were destroyed.
In a statement, Tambuwal attributed the
widespread killings across the country and the
seeming inability of the security agencies to
secure lives and property of citizens to “failure
of leadership” and ineptitude in spite of the huge
amount of money being spent on security by the
Buhari administration.. He also called for the re-
jigging of the national security architecture, in
order to make it more effective and efficient.
His attribution of the killings to ”leadership
failure,” sources said angered some forces in
the presidency.
Besides, Tambuwal’s Agriculture policy, under
the “Cattle Breeding, Milk and Beef Production
Project,” which the Sokoto State Government
said is designed to make the state a model of
modern agriculture hub especially in animal
husbandry that is driven by technology as
against the current problematic mode of cattle
herding in Nigeria, is also generating angst
against him.
Said the source: ”Tambuwal’s cattle-breeding
policy in Sokoto is said to be offensive to a
federal government that is determined to set up
cattle colonies. Following the senseless killing,
this project that is to train the people ‘in the
new and modern methods of Cattle Breeding for
sustainable upgrading of our Local Cattle Breeds
in the state and beyond for maximum
productivity in terms of good quality Milk and
Beef production’ is now in danger of
abandonment, as many of the expatriate and
other personnel working on the project, have
become so frightened by the recent carnage that
they are now expressing unwillingness to
remain in the area. The horrendous killings were
curiously carried out in the same Rabah area of
the state where this project is sited.
”The ill fate that befell Sokoto was just a
mindless ploy by some interests, to bully
Governor Tambuwal, and blackmail him into
abandoning his 2019 presidential ambition. But
the governor has made up his mind. He will the
APC and decamp to the PDP on Sunday.”
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sokoto State
Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, will defect to the
opposition party, early next week.
Specifically, and barring last-minute hitches,
sources close to the former Speaker of the
House of Representatives, who was elected on
the platform of the ruling All Progressives
Congress, APC, said he will defect on Sunday.
Penultimate week, Tambuwal, alongside the
Kwara State Governor, Abdufatah Ahmed, met
with national leaders of the PDP.
Considered to be angling for the presidency in
2019, the governor is said not to be in the good
books of some powers in the presidency, said to
have been behind recent subtle media attacks
on the governor over his policies in Sokoto
State among others.
The hitherto peaceful caliphate woke up to
attacks by unknown persons who invaded the
state from a border town. After the mayhem, no
fewer than 35 people were killed, thousands of
people were displaced and several houses and
other property were destroyed.
In a statement, Tambuwal attributed the
widespread killings across the country and the
seeming inability of the security agencies to
secure lives and property of citizens to “failure
of leadership” and ineptitude in spite of the huge
amount of money being spent on security by the
Buhari administration.. He also called for the re-
jigging of the national security architecture, in
order to make it more effective and efficient.
His attribution of the killings to ”leadership
failure,” sources said angered some forces in
the presidency.
Besides, Tambuwal’s Agriculture policy, under
the “Cattle Breeding, Milk and Beef Production
Project,” which the Sokoto State Government
said is designed to make the state a model of
modern agriculture hub especially in animal
husbandry that is driven by technology as
against the current problematic mode of cattle
herding in Nigeria, is also generating angst
against him.
Said the source: ”Tambuwal’s cattle-breeding
policy in Sokoto is said to be offensive to a
federal government that is determined to set up
cattle colonies. Following the senseless killing,
this project that is to train the people ‘in the
new and modern methods of Cattle Breeding for
sustainable upgrading of our Local Cattle Breeds
in the state and beyond for maximum
productivity in terms of good quality Milk and
Beef production’ is now in danger of
abandonment, as many of the expatriate and
other personnel working on the project, have
become so frightened by the recent carnage that
they are now expressing unwillingness to
remain in the area. The horrendous killings were
curiously carried out in the same Rabah area of
the state where this project is sited.
”The ill fate that befell Sokoto was just a
mindless ploy by some interests, to bully
Governor Tambuwal, and blackmail him into
abandoning his 2019 presidential ambition. But
the governor has made up his mind. He will the
APC and decamp to the PDP on Sunday.”