The Speaker Federal House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara on Saturday received about 10,000 supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who declared support for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bununu, Bauchi State
Dogara said among the defectors were Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro APC executives, wards executives; including their supporters that cut across the three LGAs.
The Speaker explained that poverty, lack of internal democracy and political will to improve people life informed the defectors’ decision to dumped APC for PDP.
“Today’s occasion marks a turning point of our genuine desire to wrestle power from APC with the defection of about 10,000 APC supporters to PDP ahead of 2019 election in my constituency despite all the intimidation from the ruling party,” said Dogara.
The Speaker added that the decampees came at the right time when Nigerians were joining forces to ouster President Buhari and Governor Mohammed Abubakar from seats of power.
“Honestly, APC is already in palpable fear of losing the 2019 election; that is why they have recruited INEC and security agencies to rob voters through rigging. However, don’t go home after casting your votes,” Dogara warned the youths.
Lawan Kafi, leader of the defectors said they dumped the APC following its perpetual doom and failure to give good governance in line with its chance mantra.
Kafi further stressed that the giant strides of Speaker Dogora also informed their defection to join the PDP.
“Today, we have declared for PDP to give support for the victory of Atiku, Mohammed Bala and speaker Dogara ahead of the election,” added Kafi.
He urged Nigerians not to be deceived by the antics of PDP and vote out APC from power.
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