'Decamped To APC?'—Engr. Mustafa Bello Asked!

The former Minister of Commerce and a Gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, in Niger State has questioned the source of the news report stating his official decamping from the ruling party to the opposition, APC.

Mustafa Bello, was reacting, through one of His Aides, over the publication on page 7 of Leadership Newspaper of Monday, 9th February, 2015 that claims that Engr. Mustafa Bello led over Six Thousand decampees to the All Progressive Congress in Kontagora during the party's campaign tour in Niger North Senatorial District,( Zone C) of Niger State.

The report says "Also, while receiving decampees from the People's Democratic Party led by Engr. Mustafa Bello, one of the aggrieved governorship aspirants in the last primaries of the PDP in the state" the report added that "The publicity secretary of APC, Mr. Jonathan Vatsa told journalists that so far, 13,500 decampees have been received by the party in the zone and that Mustafa Bello has defected with six thousand of his supporters"

Engr, Mustafa Bello, in a statement, described the news report as stating what never happened and that he wondered if he and his supporters were Jinn (Invincible) during the claimed decamping and receiving at Kontagora as he was not in Kontagora at that material time.

The statement added that, the news report saying he was received in Kontagora was aimed at reducing the political worth and value of the person of Engr. Mustafa Bello and that when he decides to decamp, the whole country will know but not through the way and manner it was fabricated.