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PDP Members In Sambo’s Council Defect To APC by Platform9ja: 7:23pm On Jan 01, 2014 |
No fewer than 1,200 members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kaduna North Local Government Area, Kaduna State, where Vice- President Namadi Sambo hails from, on Tuesday defected to the All Progressives Congress. This came barely a week after a former Chairman of the PDP in the state, Alhaji Yaro Makama, along with some former PDP commissioners in the state and 70 other party chiefs defected to the APC. Makama, who led the defectors, had cited injustice as one of the reasons for leaving the PDP. The new defectors were on Tuesday received by the APC’s Interim Chairman in the state, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, at the party’s secretariat on Ali Akilu Road in the Kaduna metropolis. Baba-Ahmed, a former secretary of the Independent National Electoral Commission, said the defectors had asked for forgiveness for stealing the party’s mandate in the previous elections in the state. “We have forgiven them and hope that together we shall work to defeat PDP in the state come 2015,” Baba-Ahmed said. He noted that if an unprecedented number of party chiefs could quit the PDP in the Vice- President’s local government area, it implied that the PDP was dead in the state. He described the defection as a political revolution, assuring the defectors of equal opportunity in the APC. “As of today, the original APC members and the defected PDP members are one and the same,” he said. Baba-Ahmed said the APC had been under pressure to receive more defectors since when the ex-PDP chairman, ex-commissioners and others abandoned their old parties to join the APC. He said, “We have been placed under tremendous pressure since the very day we received 75 leaders of the PDP and we have opened our doors to receive more and more PDP people. “This is the entire PDP leadership of the Kaduna North Local Government Area in Kaduna State that have decided to defect from the PDP to join the APC. Let me remind you that Kaduna North Local Government Area is the constituency of the Vice President Namadi Sambo. “Everybody that you see here is the root and the branch of PDP in Kaduna North Local Government Area, but they have decided to dump the party for APC.” SOURCE: http:///9e60TkAFIv |
Re: PDP Members In Sambo’s Council Defect To APC by Mannylex(m): 7:29pm On Jan 01, 2014 |
PDP is going down! |
Re: PDP Members In Sambo’s Council Defect To APC by Femolacaster(m): 7:40pm On Jan 01, 2014 |
Pdp is going down day by day! |
Re: PDP Members In Sambo’s Council Defect To APC by Ganeath(m): 7:45pm On Jan 01, 2014 |
That is what happen when a ship is sinking... |
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