The summer transfer window of political parties in Nigeria is still on as Nasarawa State record mass defection. Over 5000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) belonging belonging to the Kwankwasiyya group in the state defected to the people's Democratic Party (PDP).
The event took place at the secretarial of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in lapia, where the defectors bade farewaell to their former party APC. Speaking to newsmen shortly after the event, a representative of senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso group, Aminu Dabo said they were at the PDP secretarial to formally merge with party.
He
said: “The Kwankwasiyya group came to formally present themselves to
the chairman of the state PDP, which will open the way for all our
members to start registering with the party.
“We
have decamped from APC to PDP long ago. So this is the coming together
formally of our members so that everyone will go to his ward and
register with the PDP. “Each one that came here is the representative of
the Kwankwasiyya group. Over 5,000 members came to formally present
themselves to the PDP.”
In
another development, PDP in Nasarawa State yesterday alleged that
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura led APC government in the state received
over N390 billion federal allocations in the last seven and a half years
with no commiserate development projects to show for it.
State
Chairman of the party, Hon. Francis Orogu, made the allegation in Lafia
while receiving Senator Solomon Ewuga, a governorship aspirant on the
platform of the party, who was at the party secretariat to formally
inform the party of his gubernatorial ambition in the 2019 general
election.
Orogu claimed that the alleged amount received from the federation
account since 2011 to date was exclusive of other intervention funds
from the Federal Government and regretted that the state had so far been
indebted to the tune of over N70 billion within the period under review
despite the sale of public assets by the state government.
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