A report claiming that the All Progressives Congress (APC) had lost many of its supporters to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kebbi State has been disregarded by the APC.
Alhaji Suleiman Argungun, the party’s national organising secretary, called the allegation a prank intended to boost the opposition party’s support in the state during a conversation with journalists on Sunday in Abuja.
According to him, only two lawmakers—former Senate Majority Leader Abdullahi Yahaya and former governor Adamu Aliero—left the APC for the PDP after losing in the state’s APC primary elections.
Argungun said: “The report has it that a former deputy governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Aliyu, APC Zonal Vice Chairman Kebbi South, Alhaji Atiku Alaramma Warra and former Secretary to the State Government, Abubakar Ummar, among others have left the party.
“These are all mere mischief of the PDP and its few supporters who are bent on making the party popular in Kebbi irrespective of the bundles of problems it is facing.
“It’s unbelievable to say that the SSG , deputy governor and zonal party chief have decided to join PDP.
“As far as APC in Kebbi State is concerned, hundreds of people from PDP are defecting to the APC on daily basis from across the state.
A former Senate Leader, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi, left because he failed to secure APC’s governorship ticket in the state.
“Also, the former governor of the Kebbi State and a serving Senator, Alhaji Adamu Aliero, defected to PDP when he lost the primaries, alleging unfair treatment.
“They tried to unseat the duly elected candidates of the PDP in Kebbi North and Kebbi Central. The matter is now in court signifying that they were not welcomed in the PDP.
“Interestingly, the general public may wish to know that not a single executive member of their respective wards have defected with them.”
