A former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State, Senator Kabiru Marafa has cleared the air on his recent defection from the party to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
WITHIN NIGERIA had reported earlier that former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul Aziz Yari, Senator Kabiru Garba Mafara and their supporters dumped the APC for the major opposition party, PDP, on Sunday.
Speaking on his defection, Marafa said the essence of his membership of the national ruling party had been defeated, stating that he could no longer stay at a place he was no longer needed.
He said the party ostracised and humiliated him and his teeming supporters.
The former federal lawmaker went on to explain that even among his former party, some people saw to it that they were pushed to the fringes of the party and eventually frustrated out of the party they laboured to build.
He opined that APC is a political party and not a religious entity, hence it’s only Islam he would not leave.
He said that the new National Chairman of the ruling party, Senator Abdulahi Adamu, would not do anything different from what the former Caretaker Chairman of the party, Mai Mala Buni, had done.
“Politics is about winning elections and everything, so we cannot stay in a house that we are not needed,” Marafa said.
“As far as I am concerned, I am a fulfilled person as far as this project APC is called. If there is anything left, I am waiting to see how the architect of this cruelty meted out to the people of Zamfara State, how they are going to fare in politics.
“But for now, I am happy, I told them to their faces in Kaduna that they will never benefit out of the machinations they were doing at that time, that is Mai Mala and his co-travellers. And I’m happy that they have lost out and they have lost out disgracefully.
“APC is not Islam, it is my religion that I can not leave for whatever reason, but a political party, I can leave and join anyone of my choice,” he said.