A leader in the new Peoples Democratic Party bloc, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, has said the decision to pick Alhaji Buba Galadima as the National Chairman of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (rAPC), was because he is incorruptible.
The rAPC is a faction of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), which officially broke away on Wednesday.
Baraje argued that Galadima was capable of attracting the same electoral votes garnered by President Muhammadu Buhari in the North, during the last election.
“Sometimes last week, I made a press release on the nPDP when a lot of you were making enquiries about where we were going, what was going to be our next step, are we still talking to the government or party APC? I dropped a hint that before the end of the first week of July, where we are will be made known to Nigerians and today you have now seen where we are.
“Secondly, I was going through the papers today and one of the national dallies caught my attention, it said Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso had said bye to the APC. We just finished speaking with him and he is in support of Mr Chairman. He just finished with Kwankwaso, he was astonished that such a story can fly, that is part of the antics the chairman is referring to.
“Rabiu Kwankwoso is very much with this group. We were together when the national officers’ names were being put together and we held final meetings on the address of today. So there is no cause for alarm,” he said.
Baraje also denied that nPDP members were aggrieved over their inability to make personal financial gains from the current administration.
“We knew the content of the manifesto that APC was supposed to run and we stood for three years and came out when we waited for three years hoping for things to change and it never changed and we came out to say no.
“And, before you know it, they even went deeper with the mischief today with the news items in the said national paper. This is the beginning of all mischief, this is the beginning of the real, reformed APC, this is the struggle for the emancipation of our country to stop the bloodletting, rejuvenate the economy of this country, to ensure there is three square meals on the table of the average Nigerian. This is what we stand for, strengthening the system and not the individual,” he added.
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