Bilal refuted the claim that he had resigned his membership of the APC and joined the PDP.
The impeached Chairman of the Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ibrahim Bilal, has denied dumping the party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Bilal refuted the claim that he had resigned his membership of the APC and joined the PDP.
Saharareporters on September 5, 2022, reported that Bilal had joined the PDP after he was accused of financial misconduct and gross violation of the constitution.
Earlier, SaharaReporters reported that the State executive committee of the APC removed Bilal over alleged anti-party activities.
Following Bilal’s removal, his deputy, Ismaila Tadawus, was sworn in as the new chairman of the party, with 24 out of 36 officers appending their signatures.
On Monday, the APC State Working Committee (SWC) passed a vote of no confidence on Bilal after raising several allegations of corruption and anti-party activities against him.
Reacting on Wednesday, Bilal said, "For the avoidance of doubt, I, Ibrahim Bilal, still remain first and foremost an abiding APC member and chairman of the Adamawa State chapter of our great party. It is puerile to even conceive I could leave the party, I helped laboured to build at this material time.
"Just a cursory background check on the current muck raking by a few elements within the party on a futile mission to foment crisis within our party, in furtherance of the premeditated agenda of their political paymasters, would clearly reveal the root cause of the current crisis.
"I am a man caught in the web of high stake politics, and those bent on getting Bilal out of the way, would rather hang on him, a bad name so they could hang him.
"As it has been reported much of the antagonism against me has come as a result of the fallout of our party's governorship primaries, the truth is those who feel I remain a threat to their lifetime ambition of governing the state, against the popular will of our party men and women, feel Bilal should be made the scapegoat for reasons of expediency.”
Bilal said he “couldn't at this stage in my political life have contemplated resigning my position as Adamawa APC party chairman”.
“That said, they would soon hear from my lawyers, if within seven days they don't retract their fallacious and mendacious report, alleging my fictitious defection to the PDP," he added.