The Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Mahdi Aliyu Gusau has accused Governor Bello Matawalle of making him irrelevant.
The deputy has refused to leave the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the ruling party the All Progressives Congress, APC, with his principal early this year.
Gusau while speaking at the inspection of PDP’s new Secretariat in the state, accused the state House of Assembly for witch-hunting him, boasted that the PDP was very much ready to wrestle power from the APC in 2023.
The deputy governor, also stated that he has assumed leadership of the opposition party since the defection of Matawalle to the ruling party.
He said: “After the defection of Governor Matawalle, we got a befitting Secretariat of our party as the APC had hijacked all the PDP Secretariat and converted them to APC offices in the State.”
Aliyu Gasau, again disclosed that during the period of Senator Magartakada Wamakko as the Governor of the State, similar situation occurred but Wamakko ignored their party differences and worked with his deputy to move the State forward.
“So, what is wrong if Governor Matawalle would give me the chance to follow the party of my mind instead of making it compulsory for me to follow him to APC which is not in my political agenda,” he said.
“Even as a Deputy Governor of the State, the Governor has made me very redundant and irrelevant but that is not the democratic rule.”
