The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the visit came amidst reports that Governor Bello Matawalle was set to dump the Peoples Democratic Party for the APC.
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The Governor said this when he spoke with newsmen on Friday in Kaduna.
According to the authoritative news channel, arrangements have been concluded for Matawalle’s defection, with the Chairman of the APC’s Caretaker and Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, set to formally present him to President Muhammadu Buhari.
This was revealed in a statement in Gusau on Thursday by the Press Secretary to the association, Zainab Shu’aibu.
Matawalle gave the advice in a statewide broadcast in Gusau on Tuesday.
“Nigerians will no longer have anything to fear in terms of security,” he said on Tuesday in Gusau, when he led the Service Chiefs on a one day official visit to Zamfara State.
Matawalle issued the ultimatum on Tuesday evening in a statewide broadcast.
He also said repentant bandits held talks with their unrepentant counterparts and were able to secure the release of the schoolgirls.
Matawalle spoke on Wednesday while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme monitored in Lagos .
He said this on Wednesday while responding to questions on the abduction of over 200 Jangebe schoolgirls by bandits in the state last week on Channel Television’s Politics Today.
The governor, who received the girls at about 5am on Tuesday in Gusau, said the 279 girls were returned safely without paying any ransom
While the number of students recorded to have been taken away by the gunmen was put at 317, those freed as at press time were said to be 279
Matawalle said this on Sunday when 17 Emirs in the state paid him a sympathy visit over the abduction of 317 girls from the school on Friday
This was contained in a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Bala Bello, and made available to newsmen in Gusau on Thursday.
Matawalle said this on Sunday in an interview on Sunday Politics, a programme of Channels Television
The meeting, which was held at the Obas Complex in Abeokuta, was also attended by Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo and four governors from states in the North.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Daudawa and six others had declared their repentance from banditry before Governor Bello Matawalle and security agencies in Gusau on Monday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the governor summoned the stakeholders’ emergency meeting immediately on his return from an official engagement outside the state following recent spate of armed banditry and mischievous speculations
Matawalle assented to the bill on Friday in Gusau
Speaking during the event, which lasted until about 1:30am on Friday, Matawalle said the new appointments would cover the manpower gaps recently created within the system.