PDP Big Men Decamp to APC in Sokoto State

Since the emergence of Speaker Aminu Tambuwal as the governorship candidate of the APC in Sokoto State, it appears some members PDP are now pitching their tent with the APC, moving forward.

About 3,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Isa local government of Sokoto State on Sunday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Umar Mohammed Wali, the local government caretaker committee chairman, who disclosed this, stated that the PDP members took the decision to join APC not out of

any compulsion but with the conviction that the APC is the expected liberator Nigerians have been longing for.

He aid the defectors, who are from the local government of Ex-governor Attahiru Bafarawa, now a chieftain of the PDP in the state, defected to the APC because they had seen that Bafarawa had lost his political grip of the masses and his kinsmen.

According to him, Bafarawa and his political mastery is now past tense as far as they are concerned.

He assured that APC had not only stamped its feet on the land but had equally overcome any challenges ahead of the forthcoming election.

On his part, Governor Aliyu Wamakko, who was represented by the commissioner for agriculture, Alhaji Arzika Tureta, assured the defectors of equal treatment as justice remains the watchword in APC.

Wamakko further advised other local governments in the state to emulate the defection wave which had just begun from Isa and will subsequently go round the entire state, hence they have seen that APC is the only hope for Nigerians.