Why I Didn't "Port" To APC With G5 Governors..Babangida Aliyu

Niger State governor, Dr Babangida Aliyu, on Wednesday, explained that his conscience and position as a governor prevented him from defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) along with his  five colleagues at the time they took the decision.

The governor disclosed this on Wednesday when he led a delegation of PDP members in Niger State to pay a solidarity visit to the new national chairman of the party in Abuja.

Governor Aliyu, while explaining why he did not join his colleagues to APC said: “I led a protest which came to be known as G7. It was not intended to kill the party and move away. Many people asked me, you led the group, how come you did not move? I didn’t move because my conscience, understanding and my position is with the PDP. And I believe in 2015, PDP will form the government.”

He  lauded  the emergence of Alhaji Mu’azu as chairman of the party, recounting that the travails he went through after his tenure as governor of Bauchi State, were to prepare him for the chairmanship post at these trying times.

The governor  hinted that  the return of Mu’azu had brought hope to the party and they could hold their heads high, adding that the challenges faced by the party would make them face elections in 2015 better and record a resounding victory at the polls.

Responding, Mu’azu stated that efforts were being made to revive the PDP from the grass roots to the national level.