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The Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has come across a news item credited to the Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal giving condition to President Bola Tinubu to sack Minister Bello Mohammed Matawalle before he will join APC.
Governor Lawal has been playing hide and seek with his people in the ruling PDP in the state as he lobbies the Presidency on the one hand pleading to be accepted into the APC and tells the PDP members that nothing will make him join the APC.
The APC in a statement by APC Publicity Secretary, Zamfara State, Yusuf Idris Gusau, claims that Dauda’s major political rival, is his predecessor, the Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Mohammed Matawalle.
According to the statement, the governor has made several attempts while presenting himself as the governor to condemn all the good efforts Matawalle has been making to ensure peace in all parts of the country by calling on President Tinubu to remove Matawalle owing to what the Dauda’s see as “inadequacies” in the Honourable Minister.
“He doesn’t even allow the President’s billboards erected in any part of the state and wherever they sight any, they send their thugs to destroy it, yet now, he wants to join the APC by giving conditions without meeting the party’s own conditions,” the statement averred.
“It is to Matawalle’s credit that right from the Tinubu/Shatima Presidential Campaigns when he served as the Director-General of the whole northwest Campaigns Council and overwhelmingly won in all the states to contribute immensely in bringing the votes in favour of President Tinubu in 2023, never failed in effectively discharging his assigned responsibilities particularly special assignments coming directly from the President in combating insecurity particularly in the northwest and the nation in general.
“It is still fresh in our memories as Nigerians that when once the President and Commander-in-Chief directed Matawalle to relocate to the North West region and coordinate the onslaught against banditry with the military high command, during which many of the criminals announced their surrender, the minister initially tried to set up operational base in Zamfara State (which is considered the epicentre) of the criminals but unfortunately, governor Dauda never gave the permission even though it indirectly came from the President himself,” the statement pointed out.
It stressed that the base ultimately was moved to Sokoto when the Governor, Ahmed Aliyu happily welcomed the military personnel and the operation recorded appreciable success.
The statement noted that “lately too, with the kidnap of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga in Kebbi State, the President again directed Matawalle to coordinate the onerous task alongside the military and in less than a week, all 24 students were safely rescued and handed over to the Kebbi state governor Idris who handed them back to their happy parents”.
It said while all these were happening, Governor Lawal and his aides keep showing deliberate pessimism and calling for Matawalle’s head.
Meanwhile, Matawalle on the other hand and the state APC leader, has been receiving decampees especially from the ruling PDP both in Abuja and in Zamfara including many PDP chieftains and leaders to the disappointment of the PDP.
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