This is coming two days after an aide of Bello Matawalle, governor of Zamfara state, said his principal, who was elected under the PDP, will join the ruling party with “the national and state assembly members as well as the PDP executives from all levels of the state”.

In May, Ben Ayade, Cross River governor, dumped the PDP for the APC.

Speaking on Tuesday during the inauguration of a road in Port Harcourt, the state capital, Wike said it is hypocritical of the APC to demonise the PDP, yet turn around to poach members of the same party.

“People who could not win ordinary election. The party used technicality and went to court and got victory. Now, they say they are leaving the party. Hopeless, shameless human beings. People who have no conscience,” Wike said.

“Bring everything you have against me, I will not join you. Rivers state will not join you. Even if it is only Rivers state in this country, we will continue to be Peoples Democratic Party.”

Wike also accused the federal government of blackmailing some PDP governors and members to join the ruling party.

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Daudawa was killed days after returning to the forest to take up arms, according to Ibrahim Zauma, new media aide to Bello Matawalle, Zamfara state governor.

Zauma said on Friday that the bandits’ leader was killed while “trying to rustle.”

Writing via his Twitter handle, he said: “Barely nine days after Auwalun Daudawa returned to the jungle after swearing oath on the Glorious Quran never to go back to banditry, he met his waterloo! He was killed while trying to rustle.”

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He did not provide further comments regarding the development and is yet to respond to an enquiry sent by TheCable.

Daudawa had confessed to kidnapping the Kankara students in 2020.

On Wednesday, citing his close contacts, Daily Trust reported that the bandit had taken up arms again, just weeks after he claimed to have repented.

He was said to have been “frustrated” by “the lack of proper

engagement” for him and his family after the Zamfara government undertook the responsibility to cater to his welfare.

In February, the bandits’ leader surrendered his arms, which included 20 AK 47 rifles and a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher, claiming to have turned over a new leaf.

He was received at the Zamfara government house where he announced that “we have voluntarily repented.”

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