Governor Bello Matawalle, of Zamfara State has been told to get ready to lose his seat as governor if he decamps from the opposition PDP to APC.

A former governor of the state Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari said this on Sunday at the state secretariat of the All Progressive Congress in Gusau, during the distribution of N1.3bn assorted grains purchased by him for APC members and supporters as Ramadan gift.

Yari noted that the governor would lose his seat if he leaves the Peoples Democratic Party, going by the Supreme Court’s verdict that brought him to power in 2019.

He 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 an elected official who defects to another party must also vacate his seat going by the court’s judgment,” he said.

Adding that 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.”

Yari who was represented by Senator Kabiru Marafa, also said that nobody had informed them either verbally or in writing that Matawalle was defecting to the APC.

He cautioned the governor to seek judicial interpretations to the judgment before making that move.

He, however, said that the APC in Zamfara the state will welcome the governor with open arms anytime the coast is clear for him to come.