We Won’t Return To PDP, Defecting Senators Insist

Two of the 11 Senators who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) have said that no matter what effort Senate President David Mark is making to frustrate their defection, they won’t return to the PDP.
Mohammed Ali Ndume and Mohammed Jibrilla Bindo from Borno and Adamawa states who said this in separate interviews in Abuja, argued that, whether their defection letter was read on the floor of the Senate or not, nothing would make them go back to the PDP as they have gone far in their new political party.
Others who defected to the APC include,Mohammed Danjuma Goje, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi, Magnus Abe, Wilson Ake, Abdullahi Adamu, Aisha Jummai Alhassan Taraba,Umaru Dahiru and Abdullahi Ibrahim Gobir, who wrote a joint letter to Senate President David Mark announcing their formal defection to the APC but the letter was yet to read on the floor of the Senate, one week after.
The MPs argued that, they had since been attending APC national executive committee meetings and had already spread their tentacles in their respective states under the APC platform.
“As I am talking to you now members are attending a grand rally of the APC in Yola with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and some of our colleagues at the National Assembly. So we are busy in the APC at the local level and all our supporters are already in the party,” Senator Bindo said.
Senator Ndume on his part, argued that as far as he was concerned, it was immaterial whether their defection letter was read by the Senate President or not because according to him “the whole world already know we have defected and that we have also written a formal letter to that effect.”
Ndume said, Mark has found himself in a fix because as a PDP leader naturally he won’t seat and see 11 of his members leaving but that “there is nothing that can be done to salvage the party at this stage.”

L-R: Former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida, former Interim President,Chief Ernest Shonekan, former Head of State, Retired Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammed Uwais at the National Council of State meeting in Abuja, yesterday