{"id":22130,"date":"2014-01-30T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=22130"},"modified":"2014-01-30T11:31:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T10:31:37","slug":"shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Shekarau Says No Democracy In APC, Declares Loyalty To PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of supporters and well-wishers of former governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau gathered at his Mundubawa residence on Wednesday where he denounced his membership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) with a verdict that the party lacked leadership structure and internal democracy.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He declared his membership and loyalty to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He regretted that six months after its registration, APC leadership has refused to conduct elections into the national, state, local government and ward executives, adding that no single member of the party has been duly registered.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further stated that lack of leadership structure, internal democracy and detailed political programme that could enable it win elections in 2015 were lacking in APC<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shekarau who flagged the ANPP presidential flag in 2011 recounted his grouse with the APC leadership citing lack of internal democracy in the APC, Shekarau said he was dumping the party because, \u201ca cabal has hijacked the leadership of the party for their own selfish interest.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, the defection of PDP governors\u00a0 in Rivers, Kano, Adamawa, Sokoto and Kwara states further created complex leadership problems within the APC, pointing out that six months after, \u201cthere has not been membership registration in the APC from national to the Ward level, no single member has been officially registered.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shekarau who was also the immediate past governor of Kano state regretted that six months after installing an Interim national leadership, the APC has not deemed it right to conduct elections that would usher in duly elected leadership.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Shekarau declared that: \u201cOn behalf of the leaders of the defunct ANPP, it is my great pleasure to welcome you all to this gigantic stakeholders meeting of the Kano state Elders Forum. In the past couple of weeks, we have held series of consultations, we have held series of interactive sessions in respect of development and growth of the new found party, APC. The APC is today six complete months six after its formal registration on the 31 July, 2013.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWithin these six months, there is nothing to show on ground, not a single member of APC has been registered, not a single leadership structure exists anywhere within the states. No structure of Interim Leadership at Ward levels, at Local Government levels, at state levels. Up till this time, we are yet to receive any detailed programme of democratic elections to produce leaders of the party at various levels. To our dismay and to our surprise, within the six months which was the formal and official constitutional period given the interim leadership of the party, we now hear that leadership of the interim has no limited period.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWithin these six to months, various unconstitutional decisions have been passed by a clique of the leadership of the party in our position as bonafide members of that party then, we challenged such decisions. We presented written petitions signed by over 250 stakeholders on 18 December, 2013. Today is exactly six weeks since we presented that petition, no acknowledgement, no contact, no one has referred to us to address the petition we have submitted.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is the same picture with Sokoto state, same with Kwara, same with Adamawa and Rivers where disgruntled PDP governors have decided to decamp and joined the APC. Failure to address these petitions is a clear indication to us that the leadership of APC has taken sides and is not prepared to listen to genuine grievances which are against the spirit of democracy; it is against the spirit of fair hearing and against the spirit of social justice for which the party stands for.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is as a result of this very conspicuous display of injustice that the stakeholders of the ANPP of Kano has assembled here today and moved a motion which has been passed, which has been supported, that we members of the defunct ANPP of Kano state do hereby denounce our membership of the All Progressive Congress, APC,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe dump the party from this moment; and based on the motion moved and adopted and accepted unanimously, we the members of ANPP stock of Kano state are moving en mass and collectively into the Peoples Democratic Party. We are calling on all our supporters, all our well-wishers in every nook and cranny of Kano state to disassociate themselves with anything that has to do with the APC and join hands with our brothers, our brothers, our sisters and our fellow citizens of Nigeria to take the country to greater height\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of supporters and well-wishers of former governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau gathered at his Mundubawa residence on Wednesday where he denounced his membership of the All Progressive&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shekarau Says No Democracy In APC, Declares Loyalty To PDP - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shekarau Says No Democracy In APC, Declares Loyalty To PDP - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hundreds of supporters and well-wishers of former governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau gathered at his Mundubawa residence on Wednesday where he denounced his membership of the All Progressive&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-01-30T10:19:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-01-30T10:31:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SHEKARAU-FOR-pdp.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Shekarau Says No Democracy In APC, Declares Loyalty To PDP\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-01-30T10:19:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-01-30T10:31:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/\"},\"wordCount\":751,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SHEKARAU-FOR-pdp.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Exclusive\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/\",\"name\":\"Shekarau Says No Democracy In APC, Declares Loyalty To PDP - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SHEKARAU-FOR-pdp.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-01-30T10:19:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-01-30T10:31:37+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SHEKARAU-FOR-pdp.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SHEKARAU-FOR-pdp.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Shekarau Says No Democracy In APC, Declares Loyalty To PDP\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Shekarau Says No Democracy In APC, Declares Loyalty To PDP - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Shekarau Says No Democracy In APC, Declares Loyalty To PDP - Pointblank News","og_description":"Hundreds of supporters and well-wishers of former governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau gathered at his Mundubawa residence on Wednesday where he denounced his membership of the All Progressive&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2014-01-30T10:19:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-01-30T10:31:37+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SHEKARAU-FOR-pdp.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"Shekarau Says No Democracy In APC, Declares Loyalty To PDP","datePublished":"2014-01-30T10:19:17+00:00","dateModified":"2014-01-30T10:31:37+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/"},"wordCount":751,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SHEKARAU-FOR-pdp.jpg","articleSection":["Exclusive"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/","name":"Shekarau Says No Democracy In APC, Declares Loyalty To PDP - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SHEKARAU-FOR-pdp.jpg","datePublished":"2014-01-30T10:19:17+00:00","dateModified":"2014-01-30T10:31:37+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SHEKARAU-FOR-pdp.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SHEKARAU-FOR-pdp.jpg","width":750,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/shekarau-says-no-democracy-in-apc-declares-loyalty-to-pdp\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Shekarau Says No Democracy In APC, Declares Loyalty To PDP"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}