A former Acting Governor of Adamawa State, Ambassador James Barka, has dumped the All Progressives Congress for the Peoples Democratic Party.
The Ambassador, an ally of Governor Umaru Jibrilla Bindow of Adamawa State, did not only renounce his membership of the APC but also severed his ties with the governor.
The former Nigerian ambassador to Malaysia and member of the Presidential Committee on Northeast Initiative, said he did this because of Bindow’s lack of integrity.
He said: “People should have integrity.
“When you say A, it should be A.
“When you say Chairman, let’s meet tomorrow by 11am, it should be so.
“This is a government I helped to build, spending my resources and time, but today they hardly recognise whether we exist at all.
“APC has failed Nigerians in a number of ways.
“We left the PDP in 2014 because of impunity, but surprisingly, APC has become worse when it comes to impunity.”
Barka’s defection to the PDP on Friday was announced when the Adamawa State PDP Chairman and other party leaders visited him at his residence in Yola.
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