The Nasarawa State governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura yesterday said the two members of the House of Representatives representing the state at the House of Representatives were enticed with N50 million each to defect from APC to PDP.
Two House of Representatives members from Nasarawa State on the platform of APC, Dr Joseph Haruna Kigbu and Mr David Umbugadu, representing Lafia/Obi and Akwanga/Nasarawa Eggon/Wamba federal constituencies respectively were reported last week to have dumped the APC to the PDP.
Al-Makura said this during a pre-primary election seminar organised by the APC for Chairmanship and councillorship aspirants on the platform of the party for the forth-coming local government election in the state that is billed to hold in March, 2014.
He continued that the duo had joined politics as a venture where they would make money but not to provide selfless service to the citizenry as enshrined in APC ideals. However, the governor assured the APC loyalists that the party would win the 2015 governorship election and continue with its rule in the state.
His words: “The duo of the House of Representatives members from Nasarawa State that recently defected from the APC to the PDP are not leaving to anywhere.
Source: Leadership
