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A former governor of Bauchi State, Malam Isa Yuguda and his supporters, including a one-time National Organising Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji Umaru Dahiru, have joined the Green Party of Nigeria (GPN).
Others who followed Yuguda to his new political abode included a former minister, Alhaji Habibu Aliyu and his former commissioners and campaign directors across the state.
Speaking to journalists in Bauchi, yesterday, Yuguda’s spokesman and former Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Salisu Ahmed Barau, said the former governor announced his decision to join GPN at a meeting held in Jos, on Saturday.
“At that meeting, Malam Isa Yuguda announced to the people that based on the recommendations of a committee set up to assess the viability of any political party that he may join, he finally settled for the Green Party of Nigeria,” he said.
Yuguda as member of the PDP had served as Minister of Aviation under former President Olusegun Obasanjo and as governor for two terms also on the platform of the party.
He briefly left the PDP for the defunct ANPP in the run-up to the 2007 general elections after he was denied the governorship ticket of the party. Yuguda, however, returned to the PDP shortly after he was elected on the platform of the ANPP.
In 2015, his dream of going to the Senate under the PDP was shattered when he was defeated by Malam Ali Wakili of the APC.
Others who followed Yuguda to his new political abode included a former minister, Alhaji Habibu Aliyu and his former commissioners and campaign directors across the state.
Speaking to journalists in Bauchi, yesterday, Yuguda’s spokesman and former Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Salisu Ahmed Barau, said the former governor announced his decision to join GPN at a meeting held in Jos, on Saturday.
“At that meeting, Malam Isa Yuguda announced to the people that based on the recommendations of a committee set up to assess the viability of any political party that he may join, he finally settled for the Green Party of Nigeria,” he said.
Yuguda as member of the PDP had served as Minister of Aviation under former President Olusegun Obasanjo and as governor for two terms also on the platform of the party.
He briefly left the PDP for the defunct ANPP in the run-up to the 2007 general elections after he was denied the governorship ticket of the party. Yuguda, however, returned to the PDP shortly after he was elected on the platform of the ANPP.
In 2015, his dream of going to the Senate under the PDP was shattered when he was defeated by Malam Ali Wakili of the APC.