9 Governors, 100 chieftains to allegedly leave APC

There are indications that some state governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are planning to ditch the ruling party.


The rumoured exit, according to a party leader, will affect the fortunes of the governing party and President Muhammadu Buhari’s future ambition in 2019, New Telegraph gathered.

The party is expected to suffer more in South-West and North Central. Although the APC.

However, National Secretary of the APC, Hon. Mai Mala Buni has dismissed the reports of the impending defection of some governors as untrue.

According to Buni, President Buhari and the governors “are on the same page of providing democracy dividends to the electorate.”

But a member of the ruling party, who confided with New Telegraph said the governors had been bearing the pains of dashes hopes and exclusion from major decisions of government for a long while and forced to voice it out after Buhari released his list of ambassadorial nominees and they found that they were completely sidelined from the process.


Source: New Telegraph