The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has received no fewer than 40,000 decampees from various political parties in Katsina State.
Ganduje received the defectors at Ingawa Local Government Area (LGA) on Sunday, during the inauguration of the APC campaign for the local council elections in the state scheduled for February 15.
According to the APC national chairman, the new entrants included thousands of the members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP), among others.
He added that one of the decampees was Alhaji Rabiu Gambo, a former PDP State Chairman,, who was also its Deputy Governorship candidate in the 2023 General Elections.
According to Ganduje, the return of the other political parties’ members to the APC is an indication that the party is the only honest one, with a transparent leadership in the country.
He told the decampees that they were now equal members of the party, promising that they would be treated like the old members in terms of party activities and leadership.
Ganduje assured them to feel at home as they were now bonafide members of the party, vowing,”any opportunity given to the old members, they are also entitled to it.”
He called on the members of the party and the people of the state to come out en masse during the election to vote for APC candidates across the 34 LGAs of the state.
In his remarks, Gov. Dikko Radda while appreciating the decampees, assured them of all the necessary coorporation towards moving the state forward.
Radda said that it was a great success by the party to receive such a large number of the members of the other political parties into the APC, saying that the party was not afraid of election at any time.
He further expressed confidence that in the forthcoming local government election, the party would win all the positions, assuring President Bola Tinubu that Katsina was an APC state, and it would continue to be so.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the highlight of the event was the presentation of the APC flags to all the Chairmanship candidates of the party in all the 34 LGAs of the state. (NAN)
