Few months after the last general elections, Gombe State chapters of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) have drawn a battle line accusing each other of ineptitude. While the PDP berated the APC led government in the state for denying its members a venue to hold an organised end of the year dinner and stakeholders meeting, the APC described the PDP as an inconsequential party that has lost steam and dead in the state. In a press statement issued by one of party’s stalwarts in the state who was Director General, Media and Publicity of the defeated gubernatorial campaign organization in the state, Dahiru Hassan Kera, PDP stated it was an act of cowardice and barefaced indication of jittery for the APC led government in state to deny PDP the proposed venue for its party’s meeting and dinner held on Monday, 30, 2019 just as the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the Governor, Ismaila Uba Misilli in a reaction said that the PDP was only looking for cheap public sympathy to cover up its shame of last defeat. Hassan Kera further stated that ‘’We organised an end of the year dinner for our party members in the state and Gombe International Hotel was booked three weeks ago for the event only for us to be called and informed that the management has banned all political gathering in the hotel. Uba Misilli while concluding said that the APC has been able to within a short period of time changed the story of Gombe State positively saying that things have been turned around for good in the advising the PDP to forget about ever ruling Gombe State again.

Source: Nigerian Tribune December 31, 2019 18:11 UTC