Two-time governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Nasarawa State, David Ombugadu, has given reasons he dumped the PDP for the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Newspot recalls that Ombugadu, who officially joined the ruling party on Tuesday, said he was tired of leading the opposition after eight years.
According to the new addition to the APC, his years in the opposition were largely spent criticising the Governor Abdullahi Sule’s policies and programmes.
“I spent eight years on the other side, policing the policies of my elder brother. My task was to make sure that anything that is good, we paint it black,” Mr Ombugadu said.
Newspot recalls that Ombugadu ran for governorship against Mr Sule in the 2019 and 2023 under the PDP platform.
He also challenged the results of both elections up to the Supreme Court, but was unsuccessful.
Ombugadu further disclosed that his role in the opposition gave him the opportunity to closely scrutinise the governor’s policies and performance, which influenced his decision to return to the APC.
