Labaran Maku Is A Dangerous Boy-Ahmadu Ali

The Director-General of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Presidential Campaign Council, Ahmadu Ali, on
Tuesday said his party will make sure the former
Information Minister, Labaran Maku, fails for the rest of
his life for defecting to the All Progressives Grand
Alliance, APGA,.
Mr. Ali said Mr. Maku is a “dangerous boy” who the PDP
helped groom from nothing, adding that his defection will
cause a reduction in the number of votes the PDP will
garner in Nasarawa state.
The Director-General who stated this at the PDP
presidential rally in Lafia, explained that the former
minister benefited from the PDP-led Federal Government
only to defect to another party.
“ We have a young man who from nowhere was a Deputy
Governor of this state for four years, from nowhere he
was made a Minister at the federal level for six years; he
decided to leave the party for another party and keep
telling lies that by being in that party, he is helping us.
“He is only going there to reduce our votes. He is a
dangerous boy.
“We must make sure that now that he has shown his
colour, he will continue failing for the rest of his life
unless he retraces his steps back to the elders like us
and we will forgive him.”
Mr. Ali then urged the electorate in the state to vote for
President Goodluck Jonathan and other candidates of the
party at both federal and state levels.
Mr. Jonathan said lending such a support to the former
minister would amount to anti-party behaviour.
He, therefore, expressed his support for all the PDP
candidates in the state in the February 14 and 28 general
elections.
“We are told and everybody spoke about that the former
Minister of Information that is in another party and saying
that it is the President who asked him to go to another
party. Definitely I cannot play anti-party.
“PDP is my party and all those who want to help us
should come to PDP and work for PDP so that PDP will
be in control of Nasarawa State so that government of
PDP in Nasarawa State and the Federal Government that
will be in the hands of PDP and work together to move
Nasarawa State forward,” Mr. Jonathan said.
Also speaking, the President of the Senate, David Mark,
urged Mr. Maku to desist from dropping the name of Mr.
President in his quest to achieve his political ambition.
He advised him to apologise to the PDP ”if he is willing to
return to the party”, saying that the PDP would
wholeheartedly accept him into its fold.
“ People of Nasarawa State, don’t be deceived by any
ungrateful son of yours, who goes round saying he is in
another political party because Mr. President has put him
there.
“That is absolute lie, you must never believe it. We said
so few days ago and we are emphasising it again. And we
want to emphasise it; (the) President is body and soul
PDP.
“He can’t, therefore, put somebody in another political
party to be campaigning on behalf of another political
party.
“How can you be in APGA and be campaigning for the
PDP presidential candidate?
“Return to PDP with apology because before we even
take him he has to apologise to all the good people in
PDP.