Following the defection of former Deputy Senate Majority Leader, Jonathan Zwingina and other PDP bigwigs in Adamawa state to the APC and their subsequent endorsement of the APC gubernatorial candidate, the ambition of Nuhu Ribadu to become the next governor of Adamawa state may be all but over.
Other defectors to APC were a former Minister of External Affairs, Idi Hong, and two serving Senators, Bello Tukur and Ahmed Barata, as well as Sadiq Haske.
They announced their defection at a press conference in Yola on Wednesday during a visit by the president-elect, Maj. Gen Buhari (rtd).
Zwingina, who spoke on behalf of the defectors, said they decided to pitch their tent with the APC to support the party’s governorship candidate, Bindow Jibrilla.
“We are positive of the change going on now in the country; we believe in the candidacy of Bindow,” he said.
“We are positive of the change going on now in the country; we believe in the candidacy of Bindow,” he said.
Zwingina and Hong lost in their bid to represent Adamawa Central and Southern district in the National Assembly elections held on March 28.
Earlier in the day they met with the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, who was in Yola to campaign for the APC.
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