No fewer than 92,000 members from other political parties on Tuesday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), in Katsina State.
Sen. Dino Melaye, who is the Director-General of the Atiku Campaign Council made the disclosure in Katsina during the campaign rally for the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Dino asserted that out of the 92,000 decampees, 19,000 are from the Daura Zone, while 23,000 are from Funtua and the remaining 49,000 are from the Katsina zone.
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The PDP National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, while welcoming the decampees, assured them that if Atiku wins Nigeria will experience a breath of fresh air, unprecedented turnaround in the economy and lives of its citizens.
Atiku, who is in Katsina in continuation of his 2023 campaign, was accompanied to the state by his running mate and Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, among other chieftains of the party.
In another development, the Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso has asserted that the All Progressive Congress (APC), and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are dead political parties, stressing that the NNPP is the credible alternative in 2023.
Speaking during an interaction with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) 19 Northern States and the FCT chapter in Kaduna at the weekend, Kwankwaso submitted that the ruling APC had afflicted the country with so much of poverty and diseases, which was unfortunate.
‘The NNPP is the biggest nightmare of the APC and PDP in the forthcoming general elections of 2023 and a much more credible alternative to the APC and PDP that have failed the country over the years,’ he said.
APC has proved to be worse than PDP, they are dead parties and if anyone thinks they will change for good, such a person is either deceiving himself or being mischievous.