Over 1,500 members of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) in Katsina State have defected to the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP). The members from Radda town, Charanchi Local Government Area, including
Alhaji Mustapha Radda, APC youth mobilisation officer in the state from 2010 to
2016, joined PDP on Friday, February 3. The PDP state chairman, Alhaji Salisu
Majigiri, who welcomed the defectors said a committee has been set up is to
receive all the people who defected to our party from other parties.
"We shall treat all
those who defected to our party equally without any form of
discrimination," Majigiri said."
"Just this week, we received Alhaji Umar Tata APGA
governorship candidate in the 2015 election to our party together with his
supporters. We are ready to provide level playing ground to old and new members
during future elections and there will be no imposition of candidates this time
around," he added.
In his remarks, Radda said he decided to dump the
APC for the PDP to rescue his people from alleged maltreatment.
"We have done a lot
for the APC, but today my people especially the youths that I mobilised have
nothing to show for it. We did not benefit from the APC poverty alleviation
programme meant to rescue women and youths from poverty; we have presented
several requests to those that matter but we were rejected,’’ Radda said.
Source: Daily Trust
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