The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday received over 5,000 decampees from the ruling Congress for Progressive Change and other political parties in the state.

The ruling party received the decampees led by the state’s former deputy governor, Professor Onje Gyewado in a colourful ceremony held at the state secretariat of the party in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital.

Tukur regretted that PDP conceded defeat to the CPC in the 2011 general elections, vowing that the PDP would leave no stone unturned in making sure it recaptures the state in the forthcoming elections.

Speaking earlier, the Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku said the PDP has learnt bitter lessons from the last elections and has now come out stronger and ready to wrest power from the CPC.

Maku who stressed that the UmaruTanko Almakura-led CPC government has failed to impact positively on the lives of the people of Nasarawa State, added that most of the projects the CPC administration in the state is laying claims to are PDP projects which were at their various stages of completion.

The immediate past governor of the state, Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma, who was on hand to receive the national chairman, denied insinuations making rounds that the PDP in the state was factionalised. He, however, noted that some members of the party were aggrieved because they could not have things done their way and called on them to sheath their swords and join hands in fighting for the common goal of the PDP.

Speaking on behalf of the decampees, Professor Gyewado, regretted that he abandoned the party as a founding member in the state, noting that having gone round other political parties they have realised that PDP is the only party that bears the interest of the people at heart.

Callme_JKLUE: [/color][color=#990000][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font] Maku who stressed that the UmaruTanko Almakura-led CPC government has failed to impact positively on the lives of the people of Nasarawa State, added that most of the projects the CPC administration in the state is laying claims to are PDP projects which were at their various stages of completion. I laff in isoko

emmysenior: 5k? If you believe this news, then you'd believe it when someone say, "The devil's repented.

kaeto: Where are mature minded political analysts on nL so we can slug it out, (question mark needed here) not these ss3 kids littered all over the place. Go check my previous posts to see what i (The I is supposed to be in a capital letter) wrote about GEJ, PDP and states like nasarawa, adamawa (These are nouns, hence you are supposed to start them with capital letters and for the record; the correct spelling is NASSARAWA) etc.

emmysenior:

Dude! You have a terrible composition skill, I advise you go and work on it. Plus, the secondary school students are far better than you are.

Pls go back and repeat primary 4.

Thanks.

Toktee: Are you one of them cos you sound very frustrated y?

emk4lif: I still don't understand how CPC won nasarawa in 2011...the PDP has an overwhelming majority in the house of assembly with 20 out of the 24 members and most of the national assembly members..even GEJ secured nearly 60% of d presidential vote cast in the state so I Al-Makura's victory was shocking, guess the then governorr must have been really unpopular, I see the PDP taking back the state in 2015 especially with the state's ethnic issues

emmysenior:

Dude! You have a terrible composition skill, I advise you go and work on it. Plus, the secondary school students are far better than you are.

Pls go back and repeat primary 4.

Thanks.

Obiagelli: Maku preparing to rule Nasarawa state? I pity them, no wonder the Ombatse wahala.

Longeria: No matter how long a night last, there must be day break. This darkness called council of political criminal CPC shall never last, if they like let them merge with one thousand parties they will certainly die the same way those they killed through their evil networks like boko haram, ombatse, fool.ani herdsmen died. I truly want change, not change from fairly better to worst, but from current fairly better government to best. Not all change is good, a change to CPC , APC etc is a change EGYPTIANS and LIBYANS wanted, now they are crying.

emmysenior:

Frustrated? I bet you don't know the appropriate adjective to use.

Next time use words like; Angered, Infuriated, Vexed, Annoyed and Pissed.

What difference does it make if I am one of them?

I hate it when people with dirty pride look down on others even when he/she don't know them.

"Don't look down on anyone, except you want to help them up"