Mr Ishaku Daudu, former Kebbi State Commissioner for Environment, and his supporters defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday in Birnin Kebbi.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Daudu was a prominent member of the PDP for over 20 years and a former Chairman of the Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area in Zuru Emirate.
The defectors were welcomed at the APC secretariat by the party’s state chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Kana-Zuru, and Alhaji Faruk Musa-Yaro, Personal Assistant to Governor Atiku Bagudu, among other APC stakeholders.
Kana-Zuru congratulated them on their decision to join the APC and assured them of equal treatment and respect in their new organization.
Henceforth, they will be fully accommodated in APC’s activities at all levels, he said.
In his remarks, Daudu said he joined the APC in good faith following overtures by friends and well-meaning people in Kebbi.
Plans are underway to sway local government and ward executives of PDP in Kebbi to the APC, not only in my local government area, Danko/Wasagu, but in the entire Zuru emirate.
I will sit with the party chairman to work out how PDP executives at local government and ward levels that I am bringing into the APC will be accommodated.
I can assure you that PDP is dead in Zuru. PDP knows my worth and what I can do, he said.
Musa-Yaro had previously praised the former commissioner for joining the APC, describing him as an honest and gentle personality who tirelessly carried his supporters along, regardless of their religious or ethnic backgrounds.
He pledged to work tirelessly to ensure the success of all APC candidates in the 2023 general election.
Musa-Yaro also urged all APC stakeholders to tighten their belts in preparation for the upcoming tasks.
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