Why I Defected To APC – Hon Galambi

You are among the 66,000 radical who defected to the APC astatine a expansive governmental rally. What influenced your determination to permission the NNPP?

Hon. Galambi: As you know, I was antecedently a subordinate of the APC. However, definite reasons compelled maine to permission and articulation the NNPP, nether which I won my election. Now, caller reasons person led maine to rejoin the APC.

 What are those reasons?

Hon. Galambi: The crushed my supporters and I, on with thousands of others, decided to rejoin the APC is our emotion and patriotism towards the advancement and improvement of Jigawa State and Nigeria astatine large.

I person been an progressive person for decades, serving successful antithetic capacities—including arsenic a commissioner—and I person been elected 4 times to correspond my constituency successful the National Assembly. The assurance my radical person successful maine inspires maine to ever question competent and reliable leaders to collaborate with for the broader strategical improvement of my constituency, state, and nation.

I was elected nether the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), portion our authorities governor, Malam Umar Namadi, was elected nether the All Progressive Congress (APC). Since assuming office, Governor Namadi has demonstrated a wide imaginativeness and ngo for the authorities nether his 12-point agenda. He understands the needs and aspirations of the radical of Jigawa and has shown an unwavering committedness to fulfilling them, elevating the authorities to greater heights successful human, social, and economical development.

Governor Namadi’s purposeful leadership, inclusive governance, integrity, accountability, respect, and compassion for humanity are overwhelming to immoderate patriotic national of Jigawa State. The interaction of his policies, programs, and projects—which chopped crossed each aspects of nationalist work and infrastructure—is admirable to anyone who loves their people.

Today, each national of Jigawa is fixed a accidental to enactment successful governance. Development projects are springing up successful each polling unit, governmental ward, section government, and constituency. Everyone is enjoying the dividends of ideology successful 1 mode oregon another. As a patriotic citizen, I cannot let myself to beryllium near down successful this task of transforming Jigawa into a prosperous and large state. This is, indeed, what motivated our determination to rejoin the APC.

However, contempt coming from an absorption party, I spot that the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been making important impacts successful rescuing the country’s economy, which had been successful shambles for decades.

Due to the President’s audacity successful making hard and bold decisions for the corporate nationalist interest, our system is reviving and becoming healthier. The federal, state, and section governments are present getting much resources to concern infrastructure, which is cardinal to achieving sustainable societal and economical development.

Regarding my constituency, President Tinubu approved astir 4 cardinal Naira for the constitution of a Police College, arsenic good arsenic funds for electrification, erosion control, and galore different projects that volition amended the wellbeing of my people. This besides encouraged maine to instrumentality to my party, arsenic it is led by competent and reliable captains.

You mentioned that nary governmental enactment too the APC has ever won a Jigawa governorship predetermination since 1999. What bash you mean by this statement, considering the PDP’s tenure betwixt 2007 and 2015?

Hon. Galambi: Of course, nary enactment has ever won the Jigawa gubernatorial predetermination too the APC, due to the fact that the past is clear: the PDP, arsenic a party, ne'er won the Jigawa gubernatorial election. I see the radical to beryllium the party, not the enactment to beryllium the people.

In 1999, the APP won the Jigawa gubernatorial election. This enactment aboriginal changed to the ANPP successful 2003. The ANPP was 1 of the bequest parties that formed the APC successful 2014, which past won the Jigawa governorship successful 2015, 2019, and 2023. We are optimistic astir winning successful 2027 and consequent elections.

Between 2007 and 2015, the PDP ruled Jigawa, but it did not triumph the predetermination arsenic a party. It was we, the ANPP people, who switched to the PDP owed to definite reasons. We went astir and mobilized radical to ballot for the party’s candidates. This is however the PDP accidentally became the ruling enactment successful our beloved state.

You tin spot that since 2015, erstwhile the radical of Jigawa pulled retired and went backmost to their archetypal party, the PDP has been positioned successful its rightful place. It volition soon go a nominal enactment successful Jigawa—a enactment that whitethorn not adjacent person a councillor successful the state—and volition proceed to diminution towards disappearance successful the state.

Democracy is simply a crippled of pluralism. Are you not acrophobic that specified wide defection from absorption parties to the ruling enactment volition drift Jigawa into a one-party system?