Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has described the recent defection of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as an exercise in futility.
Masari, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiadua, Katsina State today, Monday, said that the defection of Atiku would not in any way affect the electoral success of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to the governor, Atiku had just answered his popular name, which he did not elaborate, but said that the era of do or die politics is over as individual character and his performance speak for him in a political warfare, not unnecessary pride and display of wealth.
He said that APC at the state and federal levels would not be deterred by elitist tendencies, adding: “we are set to receive more defectors into the party by next year as many influential members of the opposition would be joining us soon.”
Governor Masari said that the party is willing and ready to accept and accommodate any individual who sought to defect into its fold, even as he described politics as a game of number.
Governor Masari was in Maiadua Local Government Area to receive the former speaker of the State House of Assembly, Alhaji Yau GojoGojo, who defected to APC from the PDP.
