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.

Tope Daramola     Doyin Awoyale     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     SAPZ Project     Adebara     Moses Rahman Popoola     ER-KANG Mining     Ishaq Salman     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Olabanji Orilonishe     Magaji Nda     Yakubu Dogara     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Tafida     KWSUED     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Issa Baba     Buhari     AGM Professional Services     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Gbenga Awoyale     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Oke-opin     Yusuf Aiyedun     Yekini Adio     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Federal Allocation     Ejidongari     Balogun Gambari     Shehu Salau     Abdulazeez Uthman     BECE     3MTT     Saad Omo\'ya     Abdulraheem Olesin     Principal Private Secretary     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Ben Duntoye     Ayobami Seriki     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     JAAC     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Saad Omo Iya     Sobi Hill     KWACOBPA     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Ajidagba     Al-Adaby     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Turaki     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Ibrahim Orire     Just Event Online     Hassan Taiye Salam     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Yahaya Muhammad     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     UITH     Oke-Oyi     Ilofa     Kannike     Read With Me     Revenue Court     Rueben Parejo     Kwara State Governor     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Babs Iwarere     Kolawole Akande     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Halidu Danbaba     Tunde Oyawoye     Charcoal     Ayobola Ipinlaiye    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Oladimeji Thompson     Senate     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Okin Biscuits     Henry Olaosebikan     Kisra     Tuesday Assayomo     UNIFEMGA     Ahman Pategi University     GANZY     High Court     Omoniyi Ayinla     Taofik Abdulkareem     Atiku Abubakar     Makama     Aminat Ahmed     Michael Nzwekwe     Kubra Kazum     Radio Kwara     Abraham Ojo     Agbarigidoma     Doyin Group     Seun Bolaji     Face Masks     Council Of The Wise     SSA Youth Engagement     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Hakeem Lawal     Yomi Adeboye     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Olohungbebe     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Tsaragi/Share     Pilgrims Board     Abdulazeez Uthman     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Eghe Igbinehin     Naira Redesign     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Ilorin East     Unilorin FM     Omotosho     Bankole Omishore     Smart School     Amule Elementary School     Ibrahim Labaika     Moses Salami     UITH     Kwabes     Shehu Salau     Share     Emir Of Yashikira     Olaiya Lawal     GRA     Oyedepo     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Olabode Towoju     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Razak Atunwa     Olosi Of Osi     Lai Mohammed     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Kwara State Television     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Folashade Omoniyi     Wale Oladepo     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Modibo Kawu     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     KWAFFA     S.O. Opowoye     Bilikis Oladimeji     Sobi     Usman Alkali Baba     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Sanitation Exercise