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    Confused? Senator Gemade dumps APC for PDP, then PDP for SDP

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorSeptember 17, 2018No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Senator Barnabas Gemade has done a merry-go-round across political parties over the last four years
    Senator Barnabas Gemade has done a merry-go-round across political parties over the last four years
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    Senator Barnabas Gemade has done a merry-go-round across political parties over the last four years
    Senator Barnabas Gemade has done a merry-go-round across political parties over the last four years

    Senator Barnabas Gemade has now cut the image of a political wanderer after doing a merry-go-round across political parties.

    The former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national chairman, Gemade joined the All Progressives Congress in 2014, where he was handed the ticket to run for the Senate seat in Benue North East.

    Then a few months ago, the Senator followed Senate President Bukola Saraki to his old party, the PDP, along with a dozen other senators of APC.

    Today, Gemade said he has moved again as he announced his defection from the PDP to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

    According to him, he bolted out of PDP because Governor Samuel Ortom betrayed him by giving Benue North East senatorial ticket to someone else.

    The 70-year-old politician has been around for long, first in the boardroom, before he plunged into politics.

    He was born on 4 September 1948 and he is today a chief of his Tiv ethnic group.

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    Gemade was the chief executive officer of the Benue Cement Company (BCC) from 1985 to 1992. He was a member of the 1994–1995 Constitutional Conference during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.

    He even served the regime as a Minister and later became national chairman of the Congress of National Consensus party, which was one of the parties sponsored by Abacha.

    After the return of politics in 1999, Gemade became the chairman of the PDP when he was elected in the first national convention after the PDP’s electoral victory. He lost the seat two years later to Audu Ogbeh, who is also from his state.

    He was expelled from the PDP in 2003 for anti-party activities, but later readmitted as a member of the Board of Trustees. He ran for the senate seat in 2011 and won on the PDP platform. The APC gave him a second ticket in 2015. And he won.

    It remains to be seen, whether his switching to the SDP will enable him return to the Senate in 2019.

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