Top PDP Leaders In VP"s State Kaduna Dump Tulkur For Baraje

Top leaders of  the Peoples Democratic Party led by a former Chairman of the PDP in Kaduna State, Alhaji Audi  Yaro-Makanma  have  joined the Abubakar Baraje faction of the party.

Yaro-Makanma  was the state party chairman between 2001  and 2007 under the Ahmed Makarfi  administration in the state.

A statement signed by  Yaro-Makanma  and a former member of the State House of Assembly(1999-2007), Mr. Gideon Morik, in Kaduna on Monday,  said  the decision to join the New PDP was to save the party from   destruction.

It noted that the decision of the former Vice -President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and seven governors elected on  the platform of the party, was   not only worthy of commendation, but should be emulated.

Specifically,  the chieftains added that since the elevation of  Namadi Sambo as the Vice-President, the party’s fortunes had dwindled in the state.

The party noted that the Vice-President was unable to control the party because “he lacked the political wherewithal to do so.”

The  leaders said that the revolutionary moves to sack the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP and replace it with the current one led by Alhaji Kawu Baraje  should  “be replicated in all the states chapters of the party.

The PDP chiefs stated that in Kaduna, the support base of the party had been shrinking since 2007 when Sambo became governor and decided to rubbish the party and its supporters.

The party leaders said that in the last few weeks, a political Tsunami was unleashed on the nation with the emergence of a new leadership to pilot the affairs of the PDP.

They said, “The PDP in Kaduna State therefore proudly and wholeheartedly identifies with the new leadership of the party, under  Alhaji Kawu Baraje and follows in the footsteps of its sister chapters of Adamawa, Jigawa and Taraba states in setting up new leadership to give our party a new lease of life.”