Sokoto State Governor, Aliyu Wamakko,
has said that the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, would not have won any
seat in the state in the 2007 election if
not for his timely intervention.
The governor, who was reacting to
claims by the Special Adviser to the
President on Political Matters, Ahmed
Gulak, that he was a stranger in the
party, said that it was the PDP that
begged him to join the party having seen
its precarious position.
Wamakko said that Gulak's claims,
which were laughable and borne out of
ignorance and mischief, were
deliberately aimed at scoring cheap
political points.
The governor, who spoke to Vanguard
through his Special Assistant on Press
Affairs, Abubakar Dangusa, noted that
Gulak was deliberately trying to twist the
facts of his entry into the PDP and
downplay the strategic role he played to
salvage the party from extinction in
Sokoto State at the time.
Wamakko said that the Presidency and
the PDP should be grateful to him for
accepting to use his clout and political
sagacity to win elections at all levels for
the party in Sokoto.
The governor said: "The Presidency and
the PDP leadership should show me
respect and gratitude after begging me
to leave my party and join them so as to
help them win the state from the reigning
ANPP at the time.
"Gulak should be bold enough to tell the
world that it was Wamakko that made it
possible for the dead PDP in Sokoto to
come back to life and begin to win
elections from the ward to the national
level.
"The coming of Wamakko to the PDP
conquered the state for the party and
paved the way for it to be heard in the
state. The records are there for all to
see."
The political adviser to the President, Mr.
Ahmed Gulak, in a television programme
monitored in Abuja on Monday,
castigated the governors of Sokoto,
Niger and Adamawa states for fighting
the same party that offered them
opportunities to become governors from
their unpopular parties.
Gulak, who absolved President Goodluck
Jonathan of any blame in the unfolding
intra-party feud, said the dissenting
governors were not interested in making
peace but pursuing personal political
interest at the expense of the nation.
has said that the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, would not have won any
seat in the state in the 2007 election if
not for his timely intervention.
The governor, who was reacting to
claims by the Special Adviser to the
President on Political Matters, Ahmed
Gulak, that he was a stranger in the
party, said that it was the PDP that
begged him to join the party having seen
its precarious position.
Wamakko said that Gulak's claims,
which were laughable and borne out of
ignorance and mischief, were
deliberately aimed at scoring cheap
political points.
The governor, who spoke to Vanguard
through his Special Assistant on Press
Affairs, Abubakar Dangusa, noted that
Gulak was deliberately trying to twist the
facts of his entry into the PDP and
downplay the strategic role he played to
salvage the party from extinction in
Sokoto State at the time.
Wamakko said that the Presidency and
the PDP should be grateful to him for
accepting to use his clout and political
sagacity to win elections at all levels for
the party in Sokoto.
The governor said: "The Presidency and
the PDP leadership should show me
respect and gratitude after begging me
to leave my party and join them so as to
help them win the state from the reigning
ANPP at the time.
"Gulak should be bold enough to tell the
world that it was Wamakko that made it
possible for the dead PDP in Sokoto to
come back to life and begin to win
elections from the ward to the national
level.
"The coming of Wamakko to the PDP
conquered the state for the party and
paved the way for it to be heard in the
state. The records are there for all to
see."
The political adviser to the President, Mr.
Ahmed Gulak, in a television programme
monitored in Abuja on Monday,
castigated the governors of Sokoto,
Niger and Adamawa states for fighting
the same party that offered them
opportunities to become governors from
their unpopular parties.
Gulak, who absolved President Goodluck
Jonathan of any blame in the unfolding
intra-party feud, said the dissenting
governors were not interested in making
peace but pursuing personal political
interest at the expense of the nation.
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