By Mohammed Nasir Shuaibu (Bauchi State Correspondent)
A senatorial candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the Bauchi North district in the 2023 general elections, Hon. Ibrahim Mohammed Baba, popularly known as 'IMBA', has dumped the SDP for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
Hon. Baba announced his resignation from the SDP at the weekend in Katagum Local Government Area where he was simultaneously received by the APC chairman of the Nasarawa Bakin Kasuwa ward in Katagum LG, Malam Adamu Abubakar.
He was a former House of Representative member for Katagum federal constituency between 2015 - 2019 under the All Progressives Congress (APC), but later had problems with the party and dumped it.
Speaking to the press shortly after declaring for the APC weekend, IMBA said that he is returning to the party to join its reinvigoration for its betterment and Nigeria in general, having once been a member.
He said, “The main reason for my coming back into the APC is to partake in rectifying some of its identified anomalies while placing it on a sound footing". He recalled that some APC members in Bauchi State have different reasons for leaving the party. Some were annoyed by acts of omission, especially during and after the party primaries.
“This was the major reason some of us decided to stage a comeback into the APC to revive the party.”
He observed that majority of the politicians in the state still have their hearts with the APC as attested to with their clamour for the party before the 2015 polls, stressing that those regrouping to stage a come back may have some vital roles to play in the party.
Hon. Ibrahim Baba expressed confidence that the APC would continue to expand from strength to strength now that some hitherto aggrieved members were understanding the anger of other members of the party.
“By God's grace, we would nurture the party to an enviable position”, he stated.
The decamped member opined that the moment APC put its house in order and called on members to put behind their narrow-minded interests and forge ahead for the betterment of all,
Baba revealed that a great number of his supporters within the Bauchi North senatorial district and even beyond are now with the APC, and congratulated members for the party's victory at the February 25 presidential election, as well as all other elective offices in the country.
Earlier, while receiving the decampee back into the APC, the Nasarawa Bakin Kasuwa chairman of the party, Malam Adamu Abubakar, congratulated the decampees, especially the former national lawmaker for coming back into his former party.
Adamu expressed delight that the coming back of Hon. Ibrahim Mohammed Baba into the APC is a boost to the party which would go a long in streamlining its successes at all political frontiers in the state and the country at large. NNL.
