Senator Aliyu Wadada, representing Nasarawa West Federal Constituency has dumped the Social Democratic Party, SDP, for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
He was spotted at the Presidential Villa Abuja on Tuesday, where he came to intimate the President of his decision to join the ruling party.
Senator Wadada who won his election on the platform of the SDP, is also nursing the ambition to become the Nasarawa state governor.
According to him, his defection from the APC before now for the SDP, wasn’t that APC had done anything wrong, adding that, “it was just circumstantial and I wouldn’t want to bore anybody about circumstances that led to my departure from APC, because it came, and it’s now gone.
“I went out there, saw, and have done it and that’s why today I am in the Senate on the platform of SDP. But there is no hiding the fact that, and I had said this earlier, that SDP as a political party hasn’t offended me. I am still proud of SDP, but the happenings now may not warrant my continuous stay in SDP, and so I am on my way. I could even say that I am APC.”
According to Wadada, even though he was yet to officially move into the ruling party, “but I am APC, and not because SDP has offended me, just like the same way I moved from APC to SDP. Dynamism of life makes it imperative for everything in life to be dynamic.”
Commenting on his association with the coalition movement, Wadada said even though many members of the new ADC were people he interacts with and respects, none of them can do anything better than what President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration is doing, “I haven’t seen any.”
He went on to endorse President Tinubu for second term, saying there is no vacancy in Aso Rock, and between now and 2031 anybody can say what he or she wishes to say, but the space is already taken, occupied by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, “Who, amongst them will have the courage, the impetus to tell Nigerians and the world that if I am given the opportunity to preside over Nigeria, I will return subsidy.
“Let that person tell us, and if he or she is given the opportunity to preside over Nigeria, what is he is going to do different to the foreign exchange market than what President Tinubu’s government is doing, if given the opportunity, talking about infrastructural development, what is he going to do different to convince Nigerians, because it is beyond rhetoric.”
