The immediate past governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, has warned the incumbent governor of Zamfara State who has been rumoured to be making plans to defect to the National ruling party the All Progressives Congress from the major opposition party the PDP not to cross-carpet or risk losing his seat. 
Former Governor Yari noted that Matawalle came into power through a Supreme Court verdict in 2019, and as such if he indeed does defect he will lose his seat as the Governor of the State and only a PDP candidate will remain in power until 2023.
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Former Governor Yari said this at the secretariat of the APC in Gusau on Sunday, during the distribution of N1.3bn assorted grains he had purchased for the APC supporters as Ramadan gifts.
Yari was represented by Senator Kabiru Marafa, who noted that the APC is yet to receive either a verbal or a writing request that Gov Matawalle wanting to defect to the APC.
He, however, cautioned that the apex court nullified the election of the APC candidates in 2019 and announced the PDP candidates as winners who would remain in power till 2023.
“As such, until after that period, any PDP elected officer who defects to another party must also vacate his seat going by the court’s judgment,” he said.
Yari said Matawalle was being misled by some people to join the APC “forgetting the circumstances that have made him to become the governor of the state.”
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