….as party zones guber slot to northern senatorial district
Nasarawa State Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura’s immediate past Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Barrister Innocent Lagi, has dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC, and joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The former attorney general made his entry into the opposition party during an expanded meeting of the PDP held in Lafia,
as he said that his decision to join the party was based on the the disaffection of the people with the ruling APC in the country.
He said: “The two years of APC in Nigeria has divided the citizens more than the civil war. I am married to an Igbo woman with two
children and I don’t know whether my children will be Nigerians or Biafrans by October this year. I also join PDP because it has the capability to take the country out of its present economic predicament.”
He continued that his decision to join the PDP was his reasoning that PDP is the only political party that can take care of the welfare, safety and prosperity of the people.
Receiving the former attorney general into the fold of the PDP, the party’s state chairman, Francis Orogu, directed that a membership card of the party to be issued to the new comer immediately, by his ward chairman.
The state PDP chairman also announced the decision of the party to zone the 2019 governorship race to Nasarawa North senatorial zone even as he said other zoning arrangements for the 2019 general election would be made public in due course.
Also speaking on the occasion, the national chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, BoT, Senator Walid Jibrin, said he wasin support of the governorship zoning arrangement of the party in the state.
He said that the other zones of the state had produced governors since the inception of the present democratic dispensation, leaving the northern zone behind; hence the decision to allow the zone to taste the governorship seat of the state by 2019.
Speaking on behalf of members of the National Assembly from Nasarawa State, Senator Suleiman Adokwe said that the five national lawmakers on the platform of PDP from the state stood firmly by the zoning arrangement of the party in the state, as, according to him, “the zoning arrangement is equitable, just and fair.”
