From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
Barely 24 hours after the emergence of new state executives, the main opposition party in Kaduna State, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday suffered a major setback, as 10,000 supporters of Senator Shehu Sani defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Senator Shehu Sani who represented Kaduna Central in the upper chamber of the National Assembly from 2015 to 2019, was a PDP gubernatorial aspirant during the 2023 general elections.
The decamping supporters who came from across the 23 local government areas of Kaduna State stormed the 2023 APC Campaign Office at NEPA Roundabout, carrying posters of Senator Sani, welcoming him back to the APC.
According to the supporters, they have persuaded their leader, Senator Sani, to return to the ruling party, and they are convinced that they will officially decamp to the APC in the coming week.
One of the leaders of the decamping members and former Campaign Director, of Senator Sani in the PRP, Mr. Monday Jaji, said he has been struggling for Sani’s defection for over two years because of his track record of achievements while he served as Senator of Kaduna Central on the platform of APC.
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