Deputy Governor of Niger state abandons party for APC

The deputy Governor of Niger state Ahmed Musa Ibeto has abandoned his party People's Democratic Party PDP for All Progressive Congress APC.The deputy governor is said to have lost out in his bid to run for the governorship position on the platform of PDP.According to the reports,the governor of the state Babangida Aliyu did not give him the support needed to achieve that ambition.


Ahmed Nasko is currently the PDP's governorship candidate in the state. According to Daily Post, over 200 PDP members in the state left with the Deputy Governor.

Announcing his exit to his new found party, the APC, Ibeto said, “I am on my way to welcome our party leader and presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at Minna Airport for his campaign rally in Niger State.”

He said he was defecting because of the injustice melted out him and other contestants in the state party primaries, describing the exercise as flawed and stage-managed to favour anointed candidates.

Ibeto said, “The electoral process that threw up Alhaji Umar Nasko as PDP governorship candidate was not in accordance with the PDP electoral law and the constitution,”he said.

“It is true we are defecting to APC because the primaries conducted were not in accordance wirth the PDP constitution. Myself and other aggrieved party members decided to petition the National Headquaters of the party on the outcome of the governorship primaries with a view to addressing the obvious injustice but met a brickwall.