Zamfara PDP Loses Over 1,000 Card Carrying Members To APC
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By Aminu Abdullahi Gusau
Over 1,000 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) card-carrying women members have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara.
This was contained in a statement signed by Jamilu Iliyasu Birnin Magaji, the press secretary to Governor Bello Muhammed Matawalle and issued to newsmen in Gusau .
According to the statement, the governor received the decampees who announced their defection at the Government House, Gusau, on Friday night.
They were led into the government house by the former women leader of the state PDP, Madina Shehu, who had earlier defected to the APC.
Recall that, Madina Shehu defected to the APC, and in less than 24 hours, she was immediately followed by more than 1,000 card-carrying women members of the PDP into the APC.
Among those who defected to the APC were the state PDP youths leader of the women wing, women local Government campaign coordinators of the PDP gubernatorial candidate, Dr Dauda Lawal-Dare.
Others were members of the state working committee and state executive council members of the party.
The statement added that, the PDP coordinator for the Bungudu local government campaign coordinator, Ibrahim Leda, and the State House of Assembly candidate for Gusau ll constituency, Ibrahim Mada, also announced their defection to the APC with hundreds of their supporters.
In their separate remarks, the former PDP members said their defection became necessary considering the fact that the PDP lacked focus, and coupled with poor political strategy by leaders of their former party.
They informed governor Matawalle that the leadership of the PDP abandoned its supporters to run the affairs of the party by themselves.
In his response, governor Matawalle applauded the decision of the defectors to join the APC in the state and promised to carry the defectors along and treat them like every other APC member.
The governor, also the North-West zonal coordinator of the Tinubu/Shettima 2023 ticket, pledged to consolidate on the gains of what he has done for the people of Zamfara state, promising to do more.
