Why APGA Lost National Secretary To PDP

By Adesina Soyooye

After a fruitless journey to the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, former Minister for Information, Labran Maku, has dumped the Party.

Maku, who was the National Secretary of APGA, returned to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, where he made his name in politics.

Under the PDP, Maku became the Deputy Governor in his State, Nasarawa. He, thereafter, became the Minister for Information.

A former Journalist, Maku surprised not a few people when he dumped the PDP in 2015, after an unsuccessful  bid to the Governorship of Nasarawa State, for APGA, a Party which was, and still is, relatively unknown in his State. He sort to be the Governor under APGA, and failed. He tried again in 2019, and failed. Maku made do with the office of the National Secretary of APGA, a position many thought he made little or no impact, seeing that APGA revolved around the immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano.

Political analysts are of the view that given that APGA has remained a one-State Party, and that Maku was doing little or nothing as National Secretary, he had no choice but to return to the PDP.

But speaking in Nasarawa on Wednesday on why he returned to the PDP, Maku said he did so based on the yearnings of his people.