A factional leader of the All Progressives Congress in
Zamfara State, Senator Kabir Marafa, has said he will remain in the party
despite attempts to frustrate him out.
Marafa stated this during a telephone interview with our
correspondent on Saturday.
He was reacting to insinuations that a former Senate
President, Bukola Saraki, was trying to woo him and former Zamfara State
governor, Abdulaziz Yari, to the Peoples
Democratic Party.
The senator, who represented Zamfara Central Senatorial District in the 8th National Assembly, said he met with Saraki in company with Yari, but that the occasion had nothing to do with defection to the PDP.
Marafa said, “The former Senate President was going to
Kaduna for a wedding and he called me to join him since he knew that I am based
in Kaduna.
“We actually flew into Kaduna together because I was in
Abuja when he called me.
“The former Senate president was my boss. He wanted me to
accompany him to the wedding organised by a spiritual leader.
“The cleric gave out his daughter out in marriage yesterday
(Friday), and he invited Saraki and Yari, but I was not invited.”
Asked if Saraki tried to woo him to defect to the PDP,
Marafa said, “Can somebody woo me to the PDP?”
He added, “I don’t need to be wooed; if I want to join the
PDP. I will do so without anybody influencing me.
“I participated actively in the building of the APC as a
critical stakeholder. I was a sitting senator then.
“I am a senior engineer in the team that built the APC. I
will therefore not abandon my house to bricklayers, plumbers, electricians, and
others who were mere Iabourers when the construction was going on.
“A lot of those who are parading themselves as leaders of
the APC were doing menial jobs when I was issuing professional instructions as
a senior engineer.’’
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