Lahore: Former federal minister and PML-N leader, Sheikh Waqas Akram joined the PTI on Saturday.
“Fearing the elections, the PML-N continues to disperse across Punjab,” the PTI said in announcing Akram’s membership.
The statement said Akram met the PTI chairman at his Zaman Park mansion in Lahore earlier and expressed full faith in Imran Khan’s leadership.
He pledged loyalty to the “Haqeeqi Azaadi” (real freedom) movement and the party manifesto. Imran welcomed the ex-PML-N leader to PTI.
Akram joined the PTI’s “Haqeeqi Azaadi” campaign “unconditionally.”
Akram joined the PML-N in March 2013 after leaving the PML-Q, but he approached the PPP the same month since his new party was reluctant to give him the NA-89 ticket.
He declined the PML-parliamentary N’s board’s offer to run for NA-115 in June 2018 and ran as an independent. Akram had been in communication with the PTI for a while, but the party chose Ghulam Bibi Bharwana instead.
He is one of numerous high-profile new PTI members. Last month, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and 10 other former PML-Q MPAs joined the PTI. Sardar Mumtaz Khan, president of PML-N Rawalpindi, also joined the PTI in January.
