{"id":98286,"date":"2021-10-26T14:51:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=98286"},"modified":"2021-10-26T14:51:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:51:57","slug":"some-apc-bigwigs-will-soon-defect-to-pdp-says-saraki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/26\/some-apc-bigwigs-will-soon-defect-to-pdp-says-saraki\/","title":{"rendered":"Some APC bigwigs will soon defect to PDP, says Saraki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former senate president, Bukola Saraki has revealed that some bigwigs from the All Progressives Congress (APC) will soon defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed by the former senate president during a chat with Arise TV on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The former Kwara governor said the recent defection of some PDP governors to APC was expected.<\/p>\n<p>Governors like Ben Ayade of Cross River, Dave Umahi of Ebonyi, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/11\/bandits-will-no-longer-get-amnesty-bello-matawalle\/\">Bello Matawalle<\/a> of Zamfara state have defected from the PDP to the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>Saraki said the opposition party was not shocked by the movement of the governors.<\/p>\n<p>He said Nigerians will \u201cbegin to see some defections from the ruling party\u201d soon, adding that \u201cleaders in the ruling parties don\u2019t defect early, they defect late in the game\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that we [PDP] are haemorrhaging. 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