Why We Decamped To PDP – APC Youths Reveals

 

The All Progressive Congress (APC) Youth Frontier who dumped the party for PDP on April 6th have given their reason for defecting to the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

The APC Youths spokesperson Usman Austin, the National Coordinator of the frontier while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja said the defection was due to identified injustice and abnormalities in the APC.

"We identified with them because of the name progressives and progressives should be in action, not in words,'' he said.

"How can a political party merge with a faction of another party, it is not done anywhere and we kicked against it and wrote to El-Rufa'I,'' he said.

Austin also questioned the rational of making Sen. Bukola Saraki, the leader of the party in Kwara, while Gen. Buba Marwa, former Military Administrator of Lagos State was being sidelined.

He explained that Marwa had contributed so much to the advancement of APC in Adamawa and the inability to give him a leadership position in the state was an aberration.

"We are working for a formidable nation; the frontier cannot be part of injustice and abnormalities.

"It is not my personal decision but a collective decision. The reason we are defecting to the PDP is to fight the injustice meted on Buba Marwa, Shekarau and others.

"We were in PDP before; we are not new to PDP. The party has the mechanism to resolve its crises not snubbing or ignoring it,'' Austin said.

The frontier is a group associated with the APC with the objective of championing the party's course, defending and preaching its manifesto to the youths in Nigeria.