APC CRISES WORSENS AS USMAN BAWA DUMPS PARTY

President Buhari 

The crises that has enveloped the All Progressives Congress has again witnessed another casualty as a key aide to the nation's Number 4 citizen gave notice of leaving the party on Monday.



House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, who sources say will also join the bandwagon of defectors from the APC alongside the Senate President, is gradually putting his plans into play as one of his key aides has dumped the APC.

Honourable Usman Bawa, Special Adviser to the Speaker on Special Duties, resigned his membership of the APC.

Bawa, a member of the House of Representatives where he represented Kaduna North Local Government Area at the National Assembly, sent his signed resignation letter, dated July 14, to the APC chairman in his local government.

Honourable Bawa was appointed by the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, in 2015, was in the Lower Chambers of the National Assembly from 2011-2105.

Confirming the resignation of Bawa, spokesperson to the Speaker, Turaki Hassan, said Usman still remains an aide to his principal.

"I write to convey my decision to resign as a member of the All Progressive Congress ( APC) following consultations with my teaming supporters", Bawa's letter had read.

According to inside sources, the Speaker's had taken the decision as it had become necessary had become to enable him pursue other course of life.

"This decision became imperative to enable me pursue other course of life. I seize this opportunity to express my appreciation to the executives and members of APC for their support during my stint with the party". Usman stated.

He however, did not mention the new party he will be joining.

It would be recalled that, few weeks ago, a top aide of the Senate President Bukola Saraki, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, also left the APC to join forces with the R-APC, a factional group of the APC which has now join the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP which is seeking to unseat the APC from its position.

Just like Usman Bawa, the senior aide to Senate President, Baba-Ahmed is also a politician in Kaduna State.

Inside sources say both Dogara and Saraki who are believed to be the key sponsors of the R-APC, the splinter group within Nigeria’s ruling party, are seriously in talks with the other parties including the main opposition PDP to form a coalition for the 2019 election


SOURCE: Premium Times.