KADUNA – The lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Lawal Adamu Usman, has dismissed the rumour that he has “officially defected” to the new coalition under the banner of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Senator Usman, in a statement, on Monday, described his rumoured defection to the ADC coalition as mischievous, unfounded and a baseless fabrication oozing from the cesspit of the infantile imagination of those spreading it and their sponsors.
There had been widespread rumour in some quarters in Kaduna over the weekend that Senator Usman had defected to the new ADC coalition, as his two other colleagues representing Kaduna North and Kaduna South in the National Assembly were also being rumoured to be preparing to “make their intentions known shortly.”
He, however, described the masterminds of his rumoured defection from the PDP to the ADC coalition as “detractors not interested in any meaningful contribution to the development and progress of Kaduna Central Senatorial District, noting that “spreading such a cheap and politically motivated rumour about their political opponents is ingrained in their character.”
The lawmaker popularly called Senator LA by his teeming supporters and constituents in Kaduna Central Senatorial District, added, “This rumour of my defection from the PDP to the ADC is designed by my detractors to distract me and derail my various lofty programmes through which I have been delivering the real dividends of democracy to the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the past two years.”
Senator Usman, however, stated that they had failed, as he had “seen through their shenanigans: their lies won’t stand! Their plot to create unnecessary political tension between me and the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District has, indeed, woefully failed.”
He, therefore, affirmed his loyalty to the PDP.
