The North-Central All Progressives, APC, Forum has renewed calls on Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and join the APC.
The APC Forum issued a fresh invitation to Mutfwang to join the party in a statement released after a meeting in Abuja on Saturday by its Chairman, Alhaji Saleh Zazzaga, a member of the APC presidential campaign council in the 2023 election.
The North-Central APC Forum, in the statement, urged Mutfwang to join the APC before the next congress and take up the position of the leader of the party in the state.
It would be recalled that the North-Central APC Forum had in April 2024 sent a letter to Mutfwang, formally inviting him to join the APC, shortly after the Supreme Court affirmed his election as governor of Plateau State.
The APC Forum also sent a letter to the party’s national secretariat notifying it of the decision to invite Mutfwang to join the party.
As part of the push to draft Mutfwang into the APC, the North-Central APC Forum, had in March 2024 held a closed-door meeting in Abuja with leaders and chieftains of the party in Plateau State. The meeting, convened by Chairman of the North-Central APC Forum, Alhaji Saleh Zazzaga, was convened to strategize on the plan to poach Mutfwang from the PDP.
In December 2024, there were rumours that Mutfwang has defected to the APC. The rumours followed the circulation of Mutfwang’s photograph among those of APC governors during the September 2024 governorship election in Edo State.