JUST IN: If you defect to APC, you will lose your seat___ Yari tells Matawalle

One former governor of Zamfara, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari has if informed the state governor, Bello Mattawalle that If he tries to defect to All Progressive Congress, he will lose his seat. This, however, going by the Supreme Court’s verdict that brought him to power in 2019.

Represented by Senator Kabiru Marafa, Yari spoke at the secretariat of the APC in Gusau on Sunday, during the distribution of N1.3bn assorted grains he purchased for the Party supporters as a Ramadan gift.

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Moreso, he said nobody had informed them either verbally or in writing that Matawalle was defecting to the APC.

He, however, cautioned that the apex court nullified the election of the APC candidates in 2019 and announced the PDP candidates as winners who would remain in power till 2023.

“As such, until after that period, any PDP elected officer who defects to another party must also vacate his seat going by the court’s judgment,” he said.

Yari said Matawalle was being misled by some people to join the APC “forgetting the circumstances that have made him become the governor of the state.”