Marwa’s Move to APC Hailed

The resignation of former military administrator of old Borno and Lagos States, General Buba Marwa from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his movement to the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been described as a step in the right direction.

In a statement release to newsmen by a Non-governmental Organisation, NGO, New Democrats Supports Group, and signed by the National Coordinator, Ayo Akinola, the group applauded General Marwa’s latest move.

According to the statement titled ‘Nigeria’s political landscape fast getting interesting’, the group said “The APC is pulling the best of our political actors. Marwa was a leading figure in the legacy Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) an inte Prominent gral part of the fusion that became APC) which President Muhammadu Buhari led as the flagbearer in the 2011 Presidential elections. “Marwa was the gubernatorial flagbearer of the CPC in 2011, when he ran against then incumbent Murtala Nyako, who contested under the PDP in Adamawa State. With the likes of Marwa getting into the mainstream political structure, APC can be sure of competent and tested administrators and amiable political players devoid of bitterness.

“When Marwa announced the decision of his supporters and himself moving on to the APC, it was a soothing relief for his teeming admirers both in his Adamawa home state as well as the rest of the country”.