. I’m being pressured to join APC, Gov Mutffwang cries out
. Name those mounting pressure on you, APC challenges Gov
The All Progressives Congress and Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutffwang are currently at loggerheads over alleged defection plan by the Governor.
APC, on Monday, dismissed claims by Governor Mutfwang that political stakeholders have been mounting pressure on him to dump the Peoples Democratic Party for the APC.
Recall that Mutfwang had, over the weekend, told an audience at the Government House banquet hall in Jos that several APC members wanted him to join their party, though he insisted that only God and the people who voted for him could convince him to leave the PDP.
Mutfwang had said, “It is not a lie that they are putting pressure on me. But I told them that only two people would authorise me to change my party. One is the God of heaven, and the other is you, the people.”
“So those who are rejecting me for what I did not seek are only hiding their desires. The truth is that 60 to 70 per cent of APC members in the state would be glad to have us in their party. They are just biting their fingers because they know I won’t join them.”
Although several APC groups, including the North Central APC Forum led by Saleh Zazzaga, have publicly urged Mutfwang to defect since last year, other party stakeholders in Plateau recently voted against his possible entry, saying the governor was “not needed” in the party.
But in its reaction to the Governor’s weekend remarks, the Plateau State APC, in a statement by its acting Publicity Secretary, Shittu Bamaiyi, described Mutfwang as “living in self-denial”.
The APC argued that if Mutffwang had performed to the satisfaction of Plateau residents, nobody would talk about defection.
The statement partly read, “If he truly meant well for his supporters and the state, he should have courageously named those pressuring him and explained why.
“Whatever the case, it is a big minus for a sitting governor when the opposition openly objects to his joining its ranks, even when that party’s goal is to win future elections.”
