By David Onimisi Lawani
The controversial Senator Elijah Abbo, says he crossed over to the All Progressives Congress, APC, to assist his constituents and to develop his Senatorial District.
Abbo, who decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday to the APC was formally recieved at the national secretariat of APC, his new political party.
In an audience with newsmen shortly after meeting with the Governor Buni-led National Caretaker Committee, the Senator said he joined the APC because of injustice meted to him in his former party.
The Senator was accompanied to the APC national secretariat by the Senate President Ahmed Lawan to formally present him to the party.
His words: “In the first place, the reason everybody should join politics is to serve the people. The essence of government is to shield the poor masses and ensure justice.
“My main mission of joining the APC is because I have seen justice, I have seen development and I have seen desire for the leadership at the highest peak to sacrifice their personal comfort just to make the poor people to feel good. So I am in the APC to deliver, I am into the APC to help the people.”
The Senate President Ahmed Lawan, who personally introduced the Senator to the APC leaders, said people should always be at the centre and focus on what politicians do.
“Adamawa state is an APC state, the accident that happened to create what is today is ruling Adamawa will have to be addressed. By the grace of God, by 2023, Adamawa should belong to the rightful place it deserves. Let me be very specific and emphatic, Adamawa deserves an APC Governor, APC National Assembly, APC state Assembly,” Lawan said.
