Senator Ahmed Barata’s defection to PDP

It is an open secret that with his poor and dismal performance in the recent APC primaries for the October 11, 2014 gubernatorial election in Adamawa State, Senator Ahmed Barata would dump the party. Basically, the politics in Adamawa State is “Stomach Infrastructure” and most of the so-called politicians are in for what they may get and not the interest of the people.
Looking at the political sojourn of Barata, he always banked on the goodwill of certain political office holders to ascend political positions. In 1999, he banked on the goodwill of former Governor Boni Haruna to be elected member, House of Representatives twice.

When Admiral Murtala Nyako become governor, he aligned with the governor and become one of his confident and become a whale to the political aspiration of Senator Grace Bent, in spite of her superlative performance for the Adamawa Southern Senatorial Zone.
He defected from PDP to APC when Nyako defected to the party so as to be in the good books of the governor for his second bid for the senate.
With the impeachment of Nyako, Barata switch his allegiance to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, who became APC leader in the state so as to support him to clinch the ticket of the party for the gubernatorial election. But as a democrat, Atiku Abubakar said, that he would allow a level playing field for the aspirants. Thus, Senator Ahmed Barata came fourth and that is his grouse of dumping the party.
Having realized he cannot win election without the goodwill of high ranking political office holders, he dumped APC for PDP so that he can be given the ticket of the party.
Barata needs to realise the fact, that day in, day out, the people are getting wiser politically. Once given the chance and you do not deliver, the people are quite ready to make a meaningful change through the ballot box. PDP is already saturated with aspirants, who contributed in no small measure in making PDP what it is today in Adamawa state.
My prayer is that let Barata expand “Barata Water” so that the teeming unemployed get something doing and leave the stage when the ovation is loudest.

Usman Santuraki,
No2 Santuraki Close,
 Jimeta, Yola, Adamawa state