2023: Over 20,000 APC, NNPP members defect to PDP in Buhari’s home town

No fewer than 20,000 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at President Muhammadu Buhari’s Daura Senatorial zone.

The mass defection event took place at the Baure which is one of the Local Government Areas under the Katsina North Senatorial zone, popularly called Daura senatorial zone where President Muhammadu Buhari comes from.

Some defectors are from Mai’adua, Zango and Baure local government areas.

The decampees destroyed their initial party membership cards and burnt the symbol of APC which is the broom.

At the event led by the State Party chairman, Salisu Majigiri, the Governorship Candidate Senator Yakubu Lado, Senatorial candidate and serving senator from Daura zone, Ahmed Baba-Kaita, other top PDP members and candidates said, the mass defection in one local government alone from the President’s zone is telling Nigerians that it is the begining of the end for the APC.

They also attributed the mass exodus of particularly the APC members to the current state of the nation where Nigerians are feeling the severe pains of 8 years of the APC maladministration and hardship, especially the issue of insecurity.