Matawalle: Stop Intimidating PDP Members To Join APC

Iyorwuese Hagher, a senior member of the Peoples Democratic Party and chairman of the Bukola Saraki Presidential Contact and Advocacy Committee, has urged Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle to cease threatening PDP members in the state for refusing to join the All Progressives Congress.

“People cannot be dominated by force,” said Iyorwuese, who was in Gusau, the state capital, on Tuesday for a contact and advocacy visit in support of Saraki’s presidential bid.

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“The fact is that you cannot dominate people by force, intimidation, or extortion,” he said.

“In a democracy, you can’t use intimidation to force people to join your party.” This is essentially what the APC-led administration in Zamfara is doing.”

“We are aware that the APC government attempted three times to demolish the PDP headquarters in Zamfara because the deputy governor did not decamp with the governor to the APC.”

He slammed the expulsion of Mahdi Gusau, the Deputy Governor, from office, calling it an abuse of the judicial system.
“The flagrant misuse of due process and the ludicrous level to which they wish to weaken this country’s judiciary is unacceptable to the Nigerian people,” he stated.

According to him, the country was dissatisfied with the deputy governor’s departure, and Nigerians stood for the Zamfara people.

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In the 2023 general elections, he asked the people of the state to ensure that only people of unquestioned integrity were chosen.