TAAL BETRAYAL CAUSE MY DEFECTION.....DEPUTY Written by Hir Joseph, JosHits: 961 Nasarawa State deputy governor, Dameshi Barau Luka, Tuesday called Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura a betrayer, saying the governor is executing politics of “voodoo and hate”. He said he defected because he could not continue with, “this culture of political uncertainty, disrespect to rules, hatred, outright lies and falsehood, voodoo and abracadabra, politics of exclusion, shadow chasing, ad-hocism and haphazardness.” Luka, who led some of his loyalists and appointees of the governor to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), told newsmen at the secretariat in Lafia, where he handed a letter of defection to his new party, that he was never a member of the APC, because he did not participate in the membership registration exercise. Our correspondent reports that the deputy governor was accompanied by some of the governor’s appointees, including a Special Adviser, Philip Iyakwari, and a Senior Special Assistant, Engr. Modibbo Samari Solomon as well as two Special Assistants, Shuaibu Ibrahim Baba and Abdullahi Uba Mairiga. They were received into the PDP after the deputy governor handed his letter of intent to the state PDP chairman, Chief Yunana Iliya, by the leader of the party in the state, and Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Musa Ahmed Mohammed. The PDP chairman said since 2013, the party has welcomed back two former governorship candidates, Professor Onje Gye-Wado, and Nawani Aboki and three federal legislators, Senator Solomon Ewuga, Joseph Haruna Kigbu and David Ombugadu, who all got into the National Assembly on the platform of the defunct CPC. Shortly after the ceremony, the deputy governor told newsmen that he will lower the APC flag in front of his office and replace it with that of the PDP. But as Luka was handing his letter of defection at the PDP secretariat, elders and political leaders of his Mada people thronged Government House to show solidarity to Al-Makura, who they hailed for what they called developmental projects he initiated and executed in Madaland. They pledged to remain with him, insisting that their kinsman was on his own. Chun Mada (paramount ruler), Mr. Samson Gamu Yare, who led the delegation said they were at the Government House, after wide consultation with Mada people and expressed the people’s displeasure with the action of their kinsman. He called for reconciliation between the governor and his deputy. A political leader of the Mada people, Madala Keni, said at the meeting that their kinsman took the action without consulting with the people. The governor thanked them for the solidarity, and promised to do more in Mada land. The state information commissioner, Hamja Elayo, on his part, said the APC and the governor will not react to what he called “slander” hurled at them by the deputy governor, adding “the governor is too matured to run into the market place just to react to insults at him.” Elayo said the governor and the APC wish the deputy governor well.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 06:47:13 +0000
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