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APC, PDP, NNPP SUPPORTERS DECAMP TO ADC IN KATSINA
Hundreds of supporters from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Katsina on Sunday officially joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC), headed by Mustapha Inuwa, leader of the coalition in the state.
Membership cards were issued to the decampees, cut across all genders, and drawn from across the 34 Local Government Areas of Katsina State.
Their decamping was announced during the unveiling of the Katsina State chapter of the party.
Speaking during the ceremony held at the Continental Event Center, Katsina, the state’s National representative of the National Political Coalition Group, Lawal Batagarawa, decried the staggering rise of insecurity, poverty, inflation, and depreciation of the Naira value.
Batagarawa said that a lot of industries have collapsed since the inception of Bola Tinubu’s administration in 2023.
He therefore stressed the need for unity among citizens, members, and supporters of the party, expressing confidence that the party will win to fight terrorism, banditry, poverty, and illiteracy in the country.
On his part, the Chairman of the Katsina State Chapter of the ADC, Usman Musa Wamba, is optimistic that the party will do well in the forthcoming 2027 general elections.
He also solicited more support from the electorate, especially the youth, for them to enjoy the dividends of democracy.
One of the decampees, who was once an APC card-carrying member and Director of Media, Buhari Campaign Organisation, and former National Coordinator of Bola Ahmed Tinubu Movement in Nigeria, Aliyu Saulawa, attested that the APC has failed woefully in its campaign promises made to the people, especially in the North.
He insisted that the party has not achieved even one percent of what it campaigned for in the recent elections.
“Without security, there is nothing like livelihood, and if you look at the Northwest, we are peasant farmers and merchants, and definitely if we lack security, we virtually lack everything, including the educational system that is collapsed, honestly, I cannot continue to remain in APC,” he added.
In a related development, the Katsina State Chapter of the PDP, led by the party’s 2023 governorship candidate, Yakubu Lado, conducted a state expanded caucus meeting tagged: “Let’s Make Katsina State Work Again,” held at the State PDP Headquarters, Katsina.
The essence of the meeting, according to Lado, was to clear the doubts about the rumors on the death of the PDP in Katsina State.
He described the admission of the former leader of the party as a bad omen in the 2023 general elections.
“PDP structure is still alive in Katsina State. We have a message to give you to give it to your people out there.
“The existence of the former leader of the party in Katsina was responsible for our defeat in the 2023 General Elections because most people were not happy with his attitude. Everyone knows about the antecedents of PDP over the years,” Lado noted.
