There are indications that the former minister of information and governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa State, Mr Labaran Maku may defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC), if he is denied the ticket to contest the election in the state.
Maku, who resigned as the minister of information a few weeks ago to join the Nasarawa guber race is having a hard time in the party as there are other candidates favored for the ticket.
His possible defection to the APC was birthed with a meeting he had with the Nasarawa State governor, Tanko Al-Makura over the weekend.
Sources said the Maku and Al-Makura who is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has struck a new deal of understanding ahead of the forthcoming governorship election in the state.
It was also gathered that Mr. Maku has not been comfortable with the ongoing political scheming in his party, especially with the alleged moves by the Presidency to reconcile all PDP governorship aspirants in the state with a view to having a consensus candidate.
Sources revealed that the former minister’s alleged moves to join the APC were due to emerging indications that his party was beginning to sense that the minister may not lead the party to victory in the governorship election in 2015 if he is given the ticket.
Maku is said to be furious with the Presidency and national leadership of the party over the possible decision to put him off the governorship contest. This development, according to our source, is being viewed by Mr Maku as betrayal on the part of the Presidency that was said to have assured him of every necessary support in his governorship ambition.
Mr Maku is also said to be uncomfortable with the growing closeness between former governor of the state, Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma and his kinsman, Senator Solomon Ewuga, who are said to have struck a pact to support whoever emerges ahead of the other in the forthcoming primaries of the party since the likelihood of a run-off abounds.
But an official of the Maku Campaign Organisation who preferred to be anonymous denied the alleged move by his boss to defect to the APC, saying, “I know my boss as a loyal member of PDP and he cannot afford to leave the party he has sacrificed his energy and resources to build”..