Dr. Umar Mustapha Muqaddas, governorship candidate of the Labour Party, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Muqaddas, who announced his defection at a media briefing in Yola, the state capital, on Thursday, asked his supporters to vote for APC on Saturday.
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is the presidential candidate of the APC, while Peter Obi is the flagbearer of Muqaddas’ former party.
Muqaddas said he had collapsed the structure of the Labour Party in Adamawa, and his new party would be a beneficiary.
He said his supporters came into the LP with the belief that it would provide the alternative that Nigerian politics needs by being progressive, truthful, inclusive, and visionary.
He observed that he and his supporters were disappointed because they found the people running the LP to be as bad as the system they were trying to change.
He lamented that, despite their efforts and good intentions, they realized that they would go nowhere both at the national and state level with the structure set up by the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organization.
“I have been completely sidelined, ignored, and even deliberately disrespected by the LP structure, both at the national and state levels, and the same applies to other candidates in the LP,” he said.
