2023: APC Leader, Others Defect to PDP in Kwara

Date: 2022-08-09

All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Kwara State, Alhaji Bala Mahmud, and his teeming supporters in the party yesterday dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 polls in the state.

Mahmud, who was a former member of the 14-member committee on Patigi/Lafiagi crisis set up by the state government, stated that he decided to dump APC for PDP with his supporters in view of the leadership skills of former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and the decision of the PDP to zone the governorship ticket of the party to Kwara North senatorial district ahead of next year polls in the state.

The defectors are from Patigi town, the headquarters of Patigi LGA of the state.

They were later received into the PDP fold by the former Ambassador to Japan and former governorship aspirant of the party, Professor Mohammed Yisa Gana.

Speaking at the event at Patigi, the leader of the defectors, Mahmud, said their decision was based on the zeal of the PDP as the only political party that gave Kwara North the opportunity it has been looking for.

He said: “We've come to join the only party that has proven to us that Kwara North is also part of Kwara State.

“I want to assure the leadership of the party that we will join hands with our people in other local government councils in Kwara North to deliver massively for the party governorship candidate, Alhaji Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi.”

Receiving the defectors, the former governorship aspirant of PDP, Professor Gana, said: “The 11th hour money politics embarked upon by the present administration in the state will not sway our people.

“We are determined to produce the next governor for this state and no going back.

“When you talk of political structure in Kwara State, Dr. Bukola Saraki owns it, and when you need to discuss a leader with leadership prowess, it's him.”

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

A.E. Afolabi     Kwara Liberation Group     JAAC     Ahmed Alhasssan     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Sadiq Umar     Folajimi Aleshinloye     SSUCOEN     Tafida Of Kaiama     Bolakale Ayo     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Jimoh Bashir     Sanusi Abubakar     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Kisira     Kwara State Government     Abubakar Lah     Roheemat Hammed     Najim Yaasin     Maigida     Kannike     Ilorin General Hospital     Sheikh Alimi     Kwara South     Popo-Igbonna     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Alikinla     Abdulwahab Ololele     Kola Olota     Emir Of Kano     Salman Alada     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Medview Airlines     April 11     Gobir     Okiki     Gaa Olobi     Lola Olabayo     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Kwabes     Oke-Ogun     Baruten     Henry Olaosebikan     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Durbar     Adebara     Olushola Saraki     Alore     Dumagi     Salman Suleiman     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Tayo Awodiji     Sai Kayi     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Olabode George Towoju     Kwara University Of Education     Garba Idris Ajia     Borgu     Maryam Ado Bayero     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Leke Ogungbe     COEASU     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Titus Ashaolu     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Baba Issa     Issa Oloruntogun     Ajase-Ipo     Saka Adeyemo     Bolakale Kawu     Ahmed     Press Release     Mazars Consulting     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Folashade Omoniyi     Wasiu Onidugbe     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Emir Of Yashikira     Ilorin Curfew     Kulende-UITH     Issa Oloruntogun     Tunde Saad     KFA     Olatunji Moronfoye     Mubarak Oladosu     Bukola Ajikobi     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Lithium     Afonja     Twitter     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     David Oyedepo     20 Billion Bond     08001000100     Surajudeen Akanbi     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Bio Ibrahim     Babata     Baba-Isale     Law School Scholarship     Quranic Recitation Competition     Abdullahi Biffo     Iliasu     Aso-ofi     Yahaya Dumoye     Ope Saraki     Voices Of Tomorrow     Saka Adeyemo     GGDSS Pakata     Garba Ayodele Wahab     LAK Jimoh     IQRA College     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Isiaka Danmeromu     Baboko     Chief Imam Of Offa     Hakeem Idris     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Sango-UITH Road     Earlyon Technologies     Musibau Akanji     Abubakar B.M     SSUCOEN     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     V.O. Abioye     Durbar Festival     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Sherif Shagaya     Oloriegbe     Police Commissioner     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Sobi FM     Ajidagba     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Kwara University Of Education     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Yusuf Arowosaye     Harrison Osauwagboe     Yahya Mohammed     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Kannike     Ibrahim Gambari     Mufutau Olatinwo     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Baba Issa Awoye     Moses Adekanye