Press Release: 3,385 PDP Members Defect To APC In Silame, Binji LGAs, Sokoto State

Press Release

No fewer than 3385 members of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ), from Silame and Binji
Local Governments of Sokoto State on Sunday defected to the All Progressives Congress ( APC).

This is contained in a statement by the Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Northern
Senators
Forum, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko on Media and Publicity, Bashir
Rabe Mani, Dan Masanin Mani and issued to newsmen in Sokoto.

The
statement said that, the new entrants into the Party were received into
its fold at the flag off of the campaigns in Silame and Binji Local
Governments of the state .

In Silame, 1562 members of the PDP
defected to the APC, prominent among whom were a former Special Adviser
to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Alhaji Chika Umar Dantama, who was
also a former elected Chairman in the area , as well as Alhaji Yahaya
Silame, a founding member of the PDP and a former Local Government
Secretary.

They said that, they moved into the APC sequel to
the justice, fairness and equity of its leaders, as well as the tangible
legacies of Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko when he was the Governor
of the state between 2007 and 2015.

Similarly, the duo lauded Senator Wamakko for sponsoring the bill that led to the approval for
the establishment of the proposed Federal Polytechnic, Silame .

In
Binji, 1823 members of the PDP moved into the APC, and promised to work
assidously to ensure the success of the party’s candidates, at all
levels,during forthcoming general elections.

Senator
Wamakko.again happily acknowledged the sustainable support and
cooperation the people of the state were rendering to the party. He
vowed that , Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto will fill the current wide
deficit of the provision of dividends of democracy to the people of the
state, sequel to the dismal performance of the PDP -led Sokoto State
Government between 2015 and 2019.

Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto also
promised to introduce plausible programmes and policies aimed at
providing adequate social amenities to the people of the state, if
elected .

The Chairman of the Campaign council , Alhaji Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi and the state
Chairman of the party, Alhaji Isa Sadiq Achida assured the defectors of an equal treatment .

Signed :
Bashir Rabe Mani,
Dan Masanin Mani,
Special Assistant,
Media and Publicity,
Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko,
20/1/2019.