The Senate leader, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi has decamped from the ruling All progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kebbi State.
His defection from the APC to the PDP was confirmed by his special adviser on media and publicity Muhammad Jamil Gulma.
“Senate Leader Dr Yahaya Abdullahi will on Wednesday by 9 am leave Abuja for Kebbi and proceed to Kamba local government to formally declare for PDP and to possibly indicate his interest to contest his present seat,” Vanguard qouted him as saying.
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Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Yahaya’s defection is connected to his embarrassing loss in the ruling APC governorship primary in Kebbi State.
Meanwhile, one of the founding members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Osita Okechukwu who is also the Director-General of Voice Of Nigeria has hailed the party’s northern governors and political leaders for strengthening Nigeria’s unity by endorsing power shift to the South.
He said by this singular uncommon patriotic gesture, and principled response to building nationhood, the APC governors and political leaders from the north had thoroughly shamed the leaders of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who out of desperation for power attempted to harvest from ethno-religious fault lines in our polity.
Okechukwu said by their unholy attempt to harvest from primordial sentiments, PDP had not only breached rotation convention in its constitution, but had wittingly or unwittingly dug their electoral grave in 2023 presidential election.
