NASARAWA 2015: JONATHAN'S FORMER CHIEF 'VUVUZELA', LABARAN MAKU DUMPS PDP FOR APGA

Labaran Maku

Former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, has dumped the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA).

Maku has subsequently emerged the governorship candidate for APGA for the February 2015 governorship election in Nasarawa State.


It would be recalled that Maku had been aggrieved over the outcome of the PDP’s guber primaries in the state in which Mr. Yusuf Agabi emerged winner, and called on the national leadership of the party to cancel the results, but his request wasn’t granted.

Sources at the APGA headquarters in Abuja who pleaded anonymity disclosed that Maku’s name was submitted by the party before the December 26 deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as deadline for party’s to submit the names of their governorship candidates.

Aside the late Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu and a few founding fathers, every other APGA member, since its history, has always been a migrant, discontented with his or her political fortunes chiefly in PDP and thus found in APGA, a willing road-rest while his sympathy remains with the ruling party.

It will be recalled that Dr. Peter Obi, who ruled Anambra State on the platform of the party for eight years did nothing to build a party. He stayed in office and left a road-rest. Rochas Okorochas came and branched out, even before he settled down.