APC Rejects Governor’s Membership Of Party

By Adesina Soyooye

For those wondering what is delaying Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang from dumping his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC, wonder no more.

For weeks, speculations had been rife that the Governor was on his way to dumping his political party,  PDP,  for the APC.

A few days ago at the Annual Convention of Nigerian Editors in Abuja, the State Commissioner for Information, Mrs Joyce Ramnap, who represented the Governor, on the sidelines of the Conference, had told a couple of Editors that his Principal would decamp to the APC because of pressures and circumstances beyond him, but especially, for the good and progress of the State.

However, a couple of days ago, the Governor denied any such plans and pledged loyalty to the PDP.

But now, it has been revealed that  the Plateau State Chapter of the APC rejected his membership of the Party.

According to The Whistler, Plateau APC stakeholders barred the Governor from defecting to the Party.

At a meeting in Jos, allegedly, attended by the National Chairman of the Party, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, former Governor, Joshua Dariye, former Minister who was, also a former Deputy Governor, Dame Pauline Tallen, lawmakers, both serving and non-serving, when it was put to vote, whether the Governor should be allowed to join the APC or not, a resounding no greeted it. The motion was, allegedly, moved by a former Deputy National Secretary of the APC, Festus Faunter, and it was roundly defeated.

The stakeholders said they hardly need Governor Mutfwang or any other defectors to win elections in 2027 because its  structures are strong.

Two things, however should be noted. One, most of those who stood against the Governor’s defection were PDP members before they defected to the APC. Two: the Governor defeated Yilwatda in 2023 to clinch the Governorship seat of the State.

It should, also, be noted, however, that the Governor was conspicuously absent at the just concluded Ibadan National Convention of the PDP.