All Progressives Congress (APC) have been affected with more loss as the Nigeria’s ambassador to South Africa and former Deputy Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Ahmed Musa Ibeto, has dumped the ruling party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Ambassador Ibeto arrived Nigeria from Pretoria on Sunday and on Monday morning submitted his letter of resignation at the Ministry of External Affairs.
However, our correspondent could not confirm if the envoy saw President Muhammadu Buhari before coming to Minna on Monday evening to return to the party on which he served as deputy governor for two terms under Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu.
But, it was reliably gathered that Ibeto left Minna yesterday for his home town, Ibeto in Magama Local Government Area of the state.
A source told our correspondent that the former deputy governor was received by a mammoth crowd of supporters on his way to Ibeto.
It was also gathered that while in Ibeto, the former deputy governor will officially resign his membership of the APC in his ward before he picks that of the PDP.
A source close to the former deputy governor told our correspondent that Ibeto will join the Niger State governorship race immediately he joins the opposition party.
Ibeto was a member of the PDP until the party’s primary election in November 2014 in which he lost the governorship ticket to Umar Mohammed Nasko, the then Chief of Staff to Aliyu.
He resigned his membership of the PDP along with his supporters after complaining that he was badly treated by the then ruling party and was the vehicle on which the APC rode to victory in Niger State in the 2015 general elections.
He was, last year, appointed as an ambassador and posted to South Africa by President Buhari.
However, our correspondent could not confirm if the envoy saw President Muhammadu Buhari before coming to Minna on Monday evening to return to the party on which he served as deputy governor for two terms under Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu.
But, it was reliably gathered that Ibeto left Minna yesterday for his home town, Ibeto in Magama Local Government Area of the state.
A source told our correspondent that the former deputy governor was received by a mammoth crowd of supporters on his way to Ibeto.
It was also gathered that while in Ibeto, the former deputy governor will officially resign his membership of the APC in his ward before he picks that of the PDP.
A source close to the former deputy governor told our correspondent that Ibeto will join the Niger State governorship race immediately he joins the opposition party.
Ibeto was a member of the PDP until the party’s primary election in November 2014 in which he lost the governorship ticket to Umar Mohammed Nasko, the then Chief of Staff to Aliyu.
He resigned his membership of the PDP along with his supporters after complaining that he was badly treated by the then ruling party and was the vehicle on which the APC rode to victory in Niger State in the 2015 general elections.
He was, last year, appointed as an ambassador and posted to South Africa by President Buhari.
Nigeria’s ambassador to South Africa resign, dumps APC for PDP
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