"New PDP Has Come and Gone" – Gov. Aliyu

Niger State governor, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu has said that the new PDP is now a past issue, since the body had been declared illegal by a court of law and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had refused to recognise it.

Aliyu, who received in council national officials of the Nigeria Medical Association and the Niger State Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party at Government House Minna, yesterday, said the New PDP “‘has come and gone.”


The governor reiterated that the nPDP “has come and gone”, because a court had declared the group illegal, and also because INEC had opted to respect the court’s decision.

Meanwhile the PDP in Niger State on Thursday passed a vote of confidence on Gov. Babangida Aliyu for not defecting with other five governors to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The state PDP Chairman, Alhaji Mamud Enagi, said this when he led the state executive committee of the party on solidarity visit to the governor in Minna.

Enagi said that members of PDP in Niger would remain in the party and collaborate with the governor to make the state better.

Responding, Aliyu said he led the G-7 governors to improve the party and not to leave for another party. "When I was calling for meetings of the G-7 governors, I told them that the issue was not to leave the party but to improve it.

"You don’t look for improvement and run away,’’ Aliyu said. He said that if it was about his personal ambition, he would have opted to leave the party, adding that ``It is not about me but about the people".

The governor, however, decried a situation where a governor left the party without his deputy and the leadership of the party in the state.