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PDP Chairman, Over 500 Loyalist Defects To APC In Yobe State

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Fresh information has emerged that the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Chairman of Tarmuwa Local Government Area in Yobe State, Bamaina Mafawu, and over 500 of his loyalist have decamped to the All Progressive Congress (APC).

Naija News reports that prominent among the new decampees were the acting state secretary, Hassan Muhammad, the youth leader, Abdullahi Umar, the women leader as well as ward leaders of the local government.

Recently, the state governor, Mai Mala Buni is reported to have been welcoming defectors from the main opposition PDP as well as other parties into the APC in the state.

And latest of the decampees to join the Yobe APC chapter were the PDP leadership of the Tarmuwa LGA.

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The former Tarmuwa PDP chairman in a statement noted that the mass defection of party loyalists to the APC has deflated PDP’s influence in the LGA, as well as the state in general.

The former chairman, who didn’t state the reason he and his loyalist left the party remarked that “We were the strength of the party and we have all left, PDP is now non-existent and a shadow of itself in Tarmuwa.”

The new members of the ruling APC however promised to work for the party to ensure its victory next year in the general election.

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The governor, who welcomed the decampees promised them equal rights and privileges provided by the party to its members.

He also appealed to them to remain loyal to the party and its leaders now that they are part of the family.

Meanwhile, Naija News reported yesterday that more people seem to have been allegedly troping to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), as the party again received new members yesterday in Kaltungo Local Government Area of Gombe State.

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Naija News reports that the new members were defectors from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the said local government area.

Similarly, among the 14 that were said to have decamped from the Labour Party in Ebonyi were the state secretary of the party, the youth and women leader and other executive members.