A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu owns the Social Democratic Party, SDP. Igbokwe's claim followed the defection of a founding father of the ruling APC and former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu owns the Social Democratic Party, SDP. Igbokwe's claim followed the defection of a founding father of the ruling APC and former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.
' Reacting to the development, Igbokwe, in posts on his official Facebook page, urged those nursing presidential ambitions in 2027 under the SDP to understand that Tinubu owns the party. 'If indeed SDP is still alive and kicking in Nigeria, then know the truth and have inner peace: PBAT is the owner. Ignore him to your own peril. 'I remember our SDP of 1993 and the late Chief MKO Abiola,' he wrote.
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