Bwacha joins the APC barely one year before the 2023 general election. He was received into the party by President Buhari
By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
Senate Deputy Minority Leader, Emmanuel Bwacha, has ditched the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and picked up the broom of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Bwacha was received today into the APC by President Muhammadu Buhari, who posed in a photograph with Bwacha and Mai Mala Buni, the chairman of the APC caretaker committee.
Bwacha represents Taraba South in the Senate and has been a vocal critic of the government, especially its handling of the security situation in the country.
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In 2018, Bwacha blamed the escalating security crisis in the country on the amnesty policy of the government for Boko Haram terrorists.
In a report by Thisday, Bwacha, who disclosed that he has met and discussed the matter with Buhari privately, noted that the terrorists were unleashed on the society without being properly de-radicalised and they have now joined the rank of herdsmen to divert attention from them and continue perpetrating their evil agenda.
Wondering whether the government weighed the implications and consequences of releasing the terrorists on the country’s security, the lawmaker maintained that releasing them into the society has enlarged the scope of Boko Haram from the North East to the entire country.
Bwacha said: “We will continue to disagree with people who said herdsmen are the ones carrying out these killings across the country. These Boko Haram suspects, who were arrested and detained but later released into the society without being properly de-radicalised are the ones carrying out these killing sprees
“What is the basis of releasing them in their numbers? These people that have been indoctrinated, you are fighting them in the North East but you continue to release them in their numbers into the society and today, we are having the effects of their release in the entire country,” he had said.
