Ex-Zamfara Gov Yari, other chieftains welcome Matawalle to APC

Former Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, led other chieftains of the All Progressive Congress to welcome a new convert and current governor of the state, Bello Matawalle, into the APC.

Yari said Matawalle’s coming to the party would add value to the APC in Zamfara State.

The ex-governor was accompanied by chieftains of the party from Zamfara such as former Governor Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi, Senator Aliyu Ikira Bilbis, former Speaker Sanusi Rikiji, among others to the Arewa House Kaduna on Monday for the reception.

Yari, who assured the teeming members of the party that they would never allow anything harmful in the party, expressed hope that the defection of Matawalle from the PDP would be of immense benefit to the APC.

He said the meeting of the party stakeholders from the 14 local government areas of the state was convened in Kaduna to see how every member of the party would be treated fairly.

He said, “We welcome Matawalle to the APC. We hope his coming will be a good development and add value to the party in the state. As a party, we need as many people as possible to make the party bigger. We held this meeting to inform our people of our decision of accepting for the Governor to be in our party.

“I kicked against his joining the party initially because of the nature of the way the information reached us but whatever my reason are because of my people. Some of our people who I am representing are against his joining our party because they believe it would affect the oneness of the party.”