MAKU IS A TRAITOR AND A DESTROYER - PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has come down heavily on former Information Minister, Mr. Labaran Maku de­scribing him as a destroyer and an ungrateful party man.

North Central Zone Vice Chair­man of the PDP Alhaji Yussuf Ayitogu who gave the thumbs down in Minna also disclosed that Maku was out to destroy the PDP in Nassarawa State by his defection to the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) after he lost out in the party gubernato­rial primary election in the state.
‘Maku is a destroyer who wants to reduce the votes of the PDP in Nasarawa State, he is biting the finger that fed him, pointing out that it was the PDP that has made him what he is today rising from Commissioner to Deputy Gov­ernor and lately a Minister,’ he stressed.
Ayitogu who was on a recon­ciliation visit to PDP members who lost out in the primary elections in the state explained that it is unfortunate that he ( Maku) has defected to APGA which is nowhere in Nasarawa State, add­ing that APGA has office only in Keffi without any in all the local government areas and wards in the state.­
‘People who served under President Jonathan are the ones betraying him, they should be called to order. Labaran Maku cannot win any election in Nas­sarawa State, he will be shown this in the February election”, he said.
Ayitogu said those flying the party’s flag in all elections in the country should remember that they have an agreement with the PDP which they must keep, no matter what.
Also speaking in a similar vein, Governor Muazu Babangida Ali­yu who received the Ayitogu-led delegation at Government House described those that defected from the PDP as driven ‘by inor­dinate ambition and greed’.
‘I believe that majority of those that defected from the PDP did so out of inordinate ambition, it is an issue of greed’.
Governor Aliyu also blamed the crisis that followed the out­come of the party primaries on the automatic waiver given to new members of the party advis­ing that in the future, the party should conduct the issue of auto­matic waiver carefully.