Fatuhu said: “I received an audio recording where their candidate (Jamo) called my father, Alhaji Mamman Dan Baffalo, by name and abused him…”
By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
A House of Representatives member, Fatuhu Muhammed, who also is a nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari, said he quit the All Progressives Congress (APC) because his rival in the party’s primary, insulted his father.
Fatuhu is the lawmaker representing Daura/Mai’Adua/Sandamu Federal Constituency of Katsina State. He was defeated in the primary of the APC by Aminu Jamo. He got 30 votes against Jamo who polled 117 votes.
TheNiche had reported that aside Fatuhu, the senator representing Katsina North senatorial district, which is Buhari’s senatorial district, Senator Ahmed Babba Kaita, had earlier resigned his membership of the APC and joined the PDP after failing to secure a return ticket to the senate.
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Fatuhu, in a letter addressed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, did not give any reasons for his resignation from the APC. But he has now explained why he dumped the APC despite his uncle and father figure, President Muhammadu Buhari, being the leader of the party.
Fatuhu said in an interview with the Daily Trust: “I received an audio recording where their candidate (Jamo) called my father, Alhaji Mamman Dan Baffalo, by name and abused him. Alhaji Mamman Dan Baffallo and President Buhari are of the same father and mother. Out of the 26 children born by their father, they are the only males that are from the same father and mother. So, abusing my father is abusing the president. So, I said since the issue has gone beyond politics to denigrating the dignity of my parents, I cannot take it any longer, and it is not binding on me to stay in the party, so I decided to leave.”