The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jibrin, has described the defection of Senator Abubakar Sodangi from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as good riddance to bad rubbush, saying the party would lose nothing over his defection.
Jibrin told newsmen in Nasarawa, his country home in Nasarawa State, that the accusation of impunity against the PDP by Sodangi was laughable.
Sodangi had served as senator for Nasarawa west from 1999 to 2011 under the PDP. He announced his defection to the APC, given as reason the inability of the PDP to purge itself of impunity and imposition of candidates.
The BOT chairman dismissed the claim, insisting that the party, especially in the state, would not be affected by the defection.
Senator Jibrin said: “I don’t want to mention Sodangi’s name because I have no business mentioning his name as we suffered to mobilize and vote for him as senator three consecutive times from 1999 to 2011 under our great party, PDP.
“Even if somebody is blind, reasons given by him for his defection is laughable. After you benefited so much and served for 12 years in the senate under PDP, you are coming today saying impunity made you to leave PDP, who are the people that caused the impunity.
“If Sodangi said we are not doing things correctly for the past 12 years, why didn’t he correct us then, and who will now agree with him that he is not part of the impunity.”
According to him, several efforts were made to discuss issues affecting the party with Sodangi, but that the senator “ran away.”
Jibrin said that the PDP would provide level playing field to all its members aspiring for any elective position under its platform. [myad]
