*As 2 Senators, 6 others join opposition party in less than a week
The Kebbi State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has experienced a big shake-up, few days after the ruling party’s presidential primaries.
This is as the party lost five members of the National Assembly and three members of the state assembly to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), according to Daily Trust reports.
The mass defection to the PDP began after the primary election of APC as most of the decampees were disenchanted with how the party conducted its primary elections.
ALSO READ: Kebbi guber aspirant Malami dismisses rumours of distributing expensive vehicles to APC delegates
Senator Adamu Aliero of Kebbi Central Senatorial District, Senate leader, Dr. Yahaya Abdullahi of Kebbi North Senatorial District as well as member of House of Representatives, representing Kalgo/Bunza Federal Constituency, were the first set to announce their defection from APC to PDP.
Following this, Mohammed Umar Jega and Abdullahi Zumbo, members representing Aliero/Jega/Gwandu and Dandi/Arewa federal Constituencies also announced their exit from the ruling party to join the opposition party in the State.
Members of the state assembly, Habibu Labbo, Ismaila Bui, and Mohammed Buhari Aliero, representing Gwandu, Arewa, and Aliero constituencies, also abandoned APC for PDP. The Organizing Secretary of PDP in the state, Usaini Raha, confirmed the defection of the lawmakers to PDP.
On the rumoured defection of a former governor of the state, Sa’idu Usman Dakingari, to PDP, Raha said a letter to that effect was yet to reach his party’s secretariat.