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Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, who dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, has spurned President Goodluck Jonathan’s ultimatum to defected members to return to the ruling party or lose their seniority in the party.
President Jonathan had at a sensitization/grand rally organized by Imo State chapter of PDP in Owerri last weekend to welcome defectors into the party, said the doors of the party will remain open for some days to allow members, who defected to other parties to return, warning that at the expiration of the ultimatum, if they do not return, the doors would be shut and they (defector) would lose their seniority in the PDP.
But in response to that statement, Gov. Nyako said yesterday that he was more disposed to rendering service to the people than angling for seniority.
Speaking through his director of media, Alhaji Ahmed Sajoh, Nyako said that “Leadership is about service; it is not about what position you hold, it is not about seniority, you could be a ward chairman or a councillor and still contribute greatly to the development of your community rather than a minister whose only contribution is only to steal money from the treasury”.
He added: “We are not struggling for position within the PDP or in the nation, our concern is what quantum of development are we likely to contribute to the betterment of the society we find ourselves in and I think that should have been President Jonathan’s major concern not about seniority within the PDP.
“He can keep his seniority within the PDP, we are not interested in seniority, we are interested in a better Nigeria and to make a better Nigeria, the leadership of this country must think outside the box, must think beyond acquiring power or position for its own sake, but think of acquiring power and position for the development of the country.
“He is thinking of position, we are thinking of service, he is thinking seniority we are thinking of contribution”, the governor said.
