Ex-senator dumps APC for PDP

Former senator representing Kano South Senatorial from 1999 to 2003, Senator Mas’ud El-Jibril Doguwa, has resigned from the All Progressive Congress (APC).

The resignation announcement was contained in a press statement issued and signed by the former senator.

“I, Senator Mas’ud El-Jibril Doguwa, along with my supporters, working colleagues and other political associates, do hereby resign our membership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and all its committees at various levels, with effect from today, Thursday, July 11, 2024 at about 1700hrs.

This decision is consequent upon series of wide-range consultations with our people who believe that APC, at all levels, does not take advantage of our long-standing experience in politics and governance. As members of the APC, we feel we are being grossly underutilized, as we are rarely involved in any forum to discuss and share our experiences for the development of the Party, the State or the Nation,” the statement reads.

In the statement the former senator revealed that, in politics, as in other fields of human endeavour, activity ranks paramount adding that if a player in any given field is made to be redundant, the player is bound to struggle to create activities for himself, somewhere outside the party. It explained that experienced politicians do not want to stay idle.

“Based on the foregoing therefore, we heed to the instruction of our elders and the advice of our political associates, to hereby announce that, we as a group have taken the bold decision to return to our political base, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to continue as full pledged members,” the statement concluded.