Governor Tambuwal tells DEFENDER “I have no regret as APC defector”
*As ex-Reps Speaker says ‘I’m contented with my situation, Alhamdulillahi’
By Busola Samuel
Governor of Sokoto State, North West Nigeria, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has said that he has no regret for defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Governor is currently the Governorship Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the March election in Sokoto State and Zonal Coordinator for the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign in North West geo-political zone of the country.
Tambuwal, who is immediate past Speaker of the Nigeria’s House of Representatives, stated this in a response to a direct enquiry by the Editor of The DEFENDER Newspaper, Prince Bashir Adefaka, who asked if he actually made a comment trending in the social media that he regretted not following Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s advice against leaving the APC.
The editor, in an email to the governor on Friday 28 December 2018, had asked Governor Tambuwal to: “KINDLY look at this message on social media two hours ago about you so I can know what to do. I notice there are so many misinformation within the major political parties which The DEFENDER will not like to fall into: “Tinubu warned me but I didn’t listen. Wike & Saraki deceived me to join PDP. I regret my action” – Gov. Aminu Tambuwal”.”
Tambuwal, in his reply dated Thursday 3 January 2019, said: “Salam Malam Bashir, this couldn’t have come from me, pls ignore it, Alhamdulillah I didn’t in any way regret my action and iam contented with my situation ,Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.”
The DEFENDER’s chosen role in the 2019 political reportage has been to see how, despite all the mixed journalism works, to ensure that all Nigerians across the tribes and religions would be able to reconcile after elections and continue their lives as brothers and sisters of One Nation, since, according to the media organization, “Buhari, Atiku and Tambuwal could NOT have been blamable for the problem democratic exercise causes among brothers. It is our role as patriotic practitioners in the media to, in spite of publications of all negative and positive, ensure that peace and harmony reign in the end,” which is why it has its motto as “…defending the truth and national integrity”.
In his online column published in The DEFENDER on 3 August 2018 titled, “The senseless attempt to drag Sultanate Council into politics of defection”, the editor had said: “No one should make Tambuwal see Buhari as evil neither should anyone make Buhari see Tambuwal as evil, to the extent that even the Sultan of Sokoto that will now be in capacity to bring both of them together in love, peace, harmony and progress in the aftermath of everything, somebody would now want to tarnish his image thinking it is the best way to achieve a political goal. It does not work that way. People should allow Tambuwal and Buhari to play their respective politics neatly, Nigerians are watching and Allah is watching. Whichever way the pendulum falls in the end, if neatly done, it will then be easier for both contestants to relate well as tribesmen, religious people and nation’s citizens.”
