Former FCT minister and leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP )
in Nasarawa State, Senator Solomon Ewuga, alongside his followers are
re-viewing their membership of the party with a view to switching to the
ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The former deputy
governor and 2019 PDP governorship aspirant and his followers are
believed to be in their final days in PDP as their plans of defection
would be sealed before March 2, 2019, governorship election.
The
anticipated defection of Ewuga and other bigwigs, it is believed, will
deplete the ranks and chances of the PDP and APGA governorship
candidates who are his kinsmen.
Preparatory to Senator Ewuga’s
defection, the state governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, last Friday,
appointed him leader of the 2018 Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem.
Senator
Ewuga who expressed gratitude to the governor for finding him worthy of
the appointment, promised to render exemplary services and cautioned
the pilgrims against actions that could embarrassed the state
government.
Senator Ewuga is said to be a very strong factor in
Nasarawa State politics; he commands large followership among the people
and was instrumental to Governor Al-Makura’s defeat of the incumbent in
2011.
He is from the northern part of the state; all the
senators and members of House of Representatives who won elections in
that zone since 1999 to date are believed to have ridden on his back.
According
to investigation, a number of factors might have been responsible for
the sudden change of mind of the PDP leader. One is the alleged
over-bearing influence of the PDP state chairman and his role in the
last governorship primaries.
Our correspondent also gathered that
the non- preparedness of the PDP governorship candidate in the state,
Hon. David Ombugadu, in addressing campaign matters among other worrying
issues and his non- nonchalant attitude towards major PDP stakeholders
might have also been part of the reason.
Source:- Sunnewsonline
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