By Juliet Umeh
Senator Saliu Mustapha, representing Kwara Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has explained his decision to quit the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying his defection was not a rejection of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Mustapha, who recently emerged as the PDP candidate for Kwara Central through a substitution process, said he left the APC because of what he described as lack of consultation, internal democracy and sense of belonging under the leadership of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.
Speaking on Channels Television, Mustapha said: “I have not dumped President Tinubu. Like the Honourable Minister of FCT said, this Rainbow Coalition has extended to Kwara too.
“That is why it was deliberate to pick the PDP as our platform. It is not just Senator Saliu Mustapha. It is as a result of the coalition of the Otoge Progressives, the G15 and the Elder Caucus.”
