Adamawa Deputy Governor Mulls Defection to PDP

The cold war between the Adamawa State Governor, Senator Jibrilla Bindow and his deputy, Alhaji Martins Babale yesterday took a new dimension with the latter considering defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Babale’s latest travail emanated after Bindow barred him from attending the party’s statewide campaign due to what was ascribed the deputy governor’s alleged waning popularity.

THISDAY checks revealed that the decision of the governor to bar the deputy governor from the statewide campaign caused tension in the rank of the party leadership, thereby setting the governor and his deputy on war path.

Citing public humiliation Babale had suffered and uncertain future he faced, a party source disclosed that the deputy governor had started perfecting surreptitious plans to rejoin his political godfather and the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

THISDAY, February 3, 2019

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