Donald Duke
Former presidential candidate defects to PDP ahead of 2023
Donald Duke, a previous legislative head of Cross River state hosts got back to the Peoples Democratic Get-together (PDP), The Punch revealed.
The paper detailed that the administrator of the PDP guardian board of trustees in the south-south state, Effiok Cobham, revealed this on Wednesday, May 26, at a press preparation in Calabar.
When requested to affirm the theories that the previous lead representative hosted got back to the get-together, he said:
“Indeed, he has enlisted.”
Showcasecityonline takes note of that Duke was in the PDP until 208 when he left for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) where he arose as the official possibility for the 2019 decisions.
He was a two-term legislative head of Cross River somewhere in the range of 1999 and 2007.
In the interim, the most recent advancement follows the surrender of Governor Ben Ayade to the All Progressives Congress.
The Cross River state lead representative made the declaration on Thursday morning, May 20, during a gathering with some APC lead representatives who visited him at the public authority house.
Lead representative Ayade during his declaration recommended that his deserting would empower cross River state to profit more from the central government.
He credited President Muhammadu Buhari for his choice to dump the resistance PDP for the APC.
The Cross River state lead representative said the president has a nationalistic view and thus, the motivation behind why he joined the decision party.
He said regardless of lead representatives should leave legislative issues and do everything to concede to the vision of the country.
Responding, the legislative head of Taraba state, Darius Ishaku, depicted the Cross River express lead representative’s move as humiliating and stunning to the resistance.
He spread the word about this on Thursday, May 20, in the wake of meeting with the president’s head of staff, Ibrahim Gambari, at the State House, Abuja.
As per him, lead representatives chose on the foundation of the PDP consider themselves to be an option in contrast to the APC, adding that they are generally doing very well in their individual states.