Defection: Former Gov Yari receives PDP, NNPP members into APC in Zamfara

From Ibrahim Sidi Muh’d, Gusau

A large number of supporters of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress in Zamfara state.

The teeming defectors were received by the former Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, who is also the state Chairman of APC Gubernatorial Campaign Council, recently appointed by Governor Bello Matawalle.

Abdulaziz Yari has received the decampees through the Gubernatorial Campaign Council Contact and Mobilization subcommittee Chairman, Alhaji Musa Zubairu who was supported by the state APC Chairman, Alhaji Tukur Danfulani Maikatako in Talata Mafara, home town of Yari.

Dr. Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar commended the decampees for their visionary foresight and assured them to carry everybody along.

PDP leaders who dropped their party alongside their large number of supporters, were the Zamfara state Coordinator for the Actualization of Dauda Lawal Aspiration for gubernatorial, 2023.

Decampees from the NNPP included Alhaji Ibrahim son Allah Shinkafi, the Zamfara North Senatorial candidate of the party, House of Representatives candidate of the party for Shinkafi and Zurmi LGs, Alh. Suleiman Garba Zurmi and the state NNPP treasurer, Suleiman Idris Galadi.

The rest NNPP executives who decamped to APC were the local government party Chairman for Zurmi and his counterpart of Kaura Namoda local government areas respectively.

In their separate speeches, Alhaji Aminu Adamu Kanoma of PDP and Alhaji Ibrahim son Allah Shinkafi of the NNPP disclosed that they took the decision to cross carpet to APC because they were convinced with the benevolence and good leadership of the state APC Gubernatorial Campaign Council Chairman, Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar.