The National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu on Monday accepted former governor of Kano State, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, back to its fold.
Ayu stated that the party would not be distracted by peddlers of lies and that the party would grow stronger, adding that, “…we are going to win Kano and we’re going to win everywhere.”
“I want to thank all the supporters of His Excellency Ibrahim Shekarau, who in spite of the rain…defied the rain and have come here in their hundreds of thousands. There are so many outside there that you can’t see within this arena. And I believe that God willing we shall overcome all distracting forces, we shall work hard a if our lives depend on it… and I want to tell you all that we are going to overcome whatever difficulties we may have.
” Our party is getting more united, and we thank the effort of our leader, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who has done everything possible to bring every member on board,” Ayu added.
Shekarau while speaking on his latest defection from the NNPP, said, “All the agreements we had with Kwankwaso were betrayed by him and his boys and they did not accommodate one single person from my camp.
“We reached an agreement to accommodate my supporters into various elective positions in the party, but until now, the committee set up could not accommodate one single person apart from the senatorial slot given to me.
He added, ” I will never be a party to injustice. My integrity is utmost and not any political position that will make me compromise it and that of my people. Nobody will use position or money against my integrity.
“I am a man of honour and integrity but his governorship candidate (Abba Yusuf) who was given the responsibility to look at areas to accommodate my people into various elective positions never for one single day do so or even call for meeting let alone accepting my supporters to contest.
Nobody will use money to change my conscience. I was a governor for eight years in Kano and people believed in my integrity.
I am still living in a rented house in Abuja and never allocated a single plot of land to myself when I served as Governor in Kano and I challenge anyone who knows my plot of land to expose it.”
Among PDP bigwigs that attended the defection ceremony were: The presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku Abubakar, his Vice, Ifeanchi Okowa, Governor of Sokoto, Aminu Tambowal, former VP, Namadi Sambo, Former Governor of Jigawa, Sule Lamido and many others.
Recall that Senator Shekarau had been in ANPP, he left APC and joined PDP in 2014, in 2018 he defected to APC from PDP and in May 2022, he left APC for NNPP and today he finally joined PDP, the party , he left 8 years ago.