The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-rufai has warned aggrieved members of the nPDP that their threat to dump the All progressives Congress (APC) would in no way affect the electoral fortune of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. Mallam El-Rufai stated this in an interview with State House correspondents on Tuesday.
He noted that since 2003, Buhari had been winning elections in Kwara, Adamawa, Kano and Sokoto States where most of the nPDP members come from.
Recall that the nPDP had recently petitioned the national chairman of the APC, John Odigie-Oyegun and copied President Buhari among other party big shots over alleged neglect and non-recognition by the government. The petition, dated April 27, was signed by the chairman of the nPDP, Abubakar Kawu Baraje and Secretary, Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
Dailytrust reports that Baraje had last Wednesday led other members of the group to the national secretariat of the APC where they gave a seven-day ultimatum to meet President Buhari.
The ultimatum elapses today.
Governor El-rufai, however, said he agreed that the grievances of the group should be looked into with a view to accommodating them as "politics is a game of addition, not substraction."
