Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal has revealed that the Federal Government tried to keep him in the All Progressives Congress, APC, by offering him bribe.
According to the governor, when the APC- led federal government discovered he was about to leave the party, it offered to construct a road to his village.
Tambuwal made the disclosure on Thursday while addressing party faithful at a rally in Silame, Sokoto to flag off the PDP campaigns in the state.
He said: “When they realised I was about to leave the APC, they hurriedly packaged a road contract in my village to plead with me not to leave.”
Tambuwal decried the hunger in the country as well as the incompetence of the Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government in tackling the insecurity challenges in the country and challenged voters to vote out the APC from all levels of government.
He assured that the PDP would win every available position in Sokoto State to punish the APC for its hatred for the people of Sokoto State.
“We cannot continue to tolerate a government that has abandoned its people. The APC hates to invest in our people. Sokoto State will punish the APC at the elections. We will mobilise our people to come out enmasse to vote for PDP. We don’t make empty boasts like our opponents. We speak with our thumbs and PVCs and by next month, we will humble them”, he said.
The governor stressed that Sokoto was a PDP state and would deliver 100% to the party. He scoffed at reports that 50, 000 PDP members defected to the APC in the state.
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His word: “Sokoto is a PDP state, there is no doubt about that. No matter what some propagandists may say, this state will be delivered to PDP 100 percent. How can anyone claim that 50,000 of our solid and faithful members defected to APC in the small courtyard of Sen. Wamakko? We cannot be detained by the past, especially by those who plundered the state resources and wanted us to keep quiet. By the special grace of Allah, there will be no retreat, no surrender. We will not surrender our state to people who do not mean well for our people.”
