Just In: Popular northern senatorial candidate decamps to APC, gives reason

The senatorial candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Hon. Ibrahim Mohammed Baba, popularly known as ‘IMBA’, has decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The lawmaker contested to represent Bauchi North district in the 2023 general election.

The former House of Representatives member who represented Katagum Federal Constituency, between 2015 – 2019 under the banner of the APC, made this move after he failed to achieve his senatorial ambition in the last general elections, Nigerian Tribune reported.

The northern politician announced his resignation from the SDP on Saturday, May 13, in Azare, headquarters of Katagum LGA, The SUN report added.

He was simultaneously received by the APC chairman of the Nasarawa Bakin Kasuwa ward in Azare, Katagum LGA, Malam Adamu Abubakar.

Why he returned to the APC

The politician, who had irreconcilable problems with the APC leadership prior to the 2019 general elections, dumped the party and joined the SDP, under which he contested but lost the election.

IMBA said he was backpedalling into the APC to join its reinvigoration for its betterment and Nigeria in general, having once been an insider.

He said: “The main reason for my coming back into the APC is to partake in rectifying some of the anomalies in the party while placing it on a sound footing ahead of forthcoming elections in the future. Some APC members in Bauchi have different reasons for leaving the party, some were annoyed by acts of omission, especially during and after the party primaries. This is the major reason some of us decided to stage a come back into the APC in order to revive the party.”

In another development, the Arewa youths president, Comrade Shettima Yerima, said that despite the southeast's miscalculation in the 2023 elections, where they supported their candidate against a national candidate, the zone should be given the opportunity to produce the next Senate president. According to him, it is for the sake of peace, equity and justice that the zone should be given the opportunity.

He told Legit.ng exclusively: "Despite the errors of the past, this government cannot afford to have serious agitations anymore. This is because, today, we are more divided than we were in the past. Even with some of us in northern context, we have our own reservation because we did not benefit from Buhari government at all. In fact if there is anyone zone that has benefited is the west."

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