Jonathan’s campaign organization woos Shettima

Coordinator of the Goodluck Jonathan 2015 Campaign Organization in Borno state, Alhaji Bulama Fugu, yesterday advised Governor Kashim Shettima to decamp to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Fugu was the speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly during the tenure of former governor Ali Modu Sheriff. He was forced to resign after a fierce battle with Sheriff. His appeal to Shettima to leave the APC came a few days after Sheriff announced his readiness to join the PDP. Fugu said Shettima would have a “safe sail” in 2015 if he decamps to the PDP, stressing, “It will also save the governor all the stress and embarrassment in 2015 because PDP is now the future for the people of Borno State.”

The former speaker who spoke with newsmen in Maiduguri said since 1999, Sheriff had been “the biggest headache of the PDP,” adding that now that the former governor had left the APC for the PDP, it means the political terrain in the state would change.

Speaking on his fight with Sheriff years back that culminated in his vacating the position of Speaker, Fugu said, “I had my feeling about the bad government of the then ANPP in the state and I expressed myself accordingly. Sheriff was in government then, which is a different situation and I judged him by his failures and performance then; but now being in the PDP is another different ball-game, because we know he has the carriage to make the party perform better, even though we have a good number of his equals in the PDP”.