The Taraba State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused its former scribe, Tony Suleiman, of accepting money to join the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.
Mr. Suleiman and the Chairman of the APC in Sardauna Local Government Area of the State, Yusuf Tanimu, on Tuesday defected to the PDP citing lack of ideas on the part of the leadership of their former party and “petty politics of sidelining members” among others.
In his reaction, the Taraba APC Chairman, Hassan Ardo, on Sunday alleged that Suleiman collected a huge amount of money as price for his defection to the PDP.
“We all know they decided to defect because they are money politicians and APC has no money to give”, he said of Mr. Suleiman and his supporters. “They were promised cash money before signed to leave our party”.
Mr. Ardo, however, said the former scribe’s exit was of no political consequence to the APC in Taraba.
“Ask the former secretary, how many votes was he able to score in his own unit, in his own ward in Jaen, Karim Lamido Local Government? He had only one vote in that unit! One vote!
“We are not bordered about them because what we are doing in APC is not for money. We are not doing money politics. It’s PDP that is using government money for its activities. So if they feel that they are not being carried along because we are not having money to share to them, they are very correct. We cannot carry them along because we don’t have the money to share”, he stressed.
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In his response to the claim that his defection was financially induced, Mr. Suleiman denied receiving “one single Kobo” to join the PDP.
However, he confirmed that he was offered huge sums of money in the past to join the PDP, which he turned down.
“It is a different thing this time around, PDP has not given me one single kobo”, he said.
“PDP gave me about N8 million during the presidential campaign, I refused to take. If I’m after money I would have compromised”.
Mr. Suleiman insisted that his decision to dump the APC was because of its poor management
“The state chairman (Mr. Ardo) is very greedy”, he said. “Whatever comes into the party, he always claims that the party is indebted by him; that he used his money to take care of the party, whereas it is a complete lie”.
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