4.12.2025
Zamfara governor Dauda Lawal has been lampooned by the All-Progressives Congress (APC) in the State for demanding the sack of the Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle, as a condition to join the party.
Zamfra APC publicity secretary, Malam Yusuf Idris, stated in a statement issued in Gusau on Thursday that the state APC chapter has come across a news item credited to Lawal giving condition to President Bola Tinubu to sack Matawalle before he will join APC.
”The same Governor, Dauda Lawal has been playing hide and seek with his people in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state as he lobbies presidency on the one hand pleading to be accepted into the APC.
“The governor has told PDP members both within and outside the state that nothing will make him join the APC which he has always called names. Gov. Lawal’s aides, who dance to the tunes of their paymaster like zombies, never saw anything good in the APC.
“This is so except for the wise ones who have seen in clear terms the failure of the ruling PDP in the state vme 2027, the return of the APC which mandate was openly stolen, abandoned the PDP to declare their loyalty to the APC.
“Dauda’s major political rival in the whole world, is his predecessor, now Minister of State for Defence, Matawalle, whose political calculations are unmatched by new entrants like Dauda,” he said.
Idris said Lawal has made several attempts while presenting himself as the governor to condemn all the good efforts Matawalle has been making to ensure peace in all parts of the country by calling on Tinubu to remove Matawalle owing to what the Dauda SAW as “inadequacies” in the minister.
Idris expressed dismay that the PDP-led government doesn’t even allow the president’s billboards to be erected in any part of the state.
“Wherever they see any billboard, they send their thugs to destroy it, yet now, he wants to join the APC by giving conditions without meeting the party’s own conditions.”