About 4,500 members of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Green Party of Nigeria, GPN, in Bauchi State have defected to the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP.
The defectors said their resolve to join the new party was aimed at dislodging the ruling APC in the state in 2019.
The defectors were led by a 2015 senatorial candidate under PDP, Umar Farouk and are mostly from Bauchi North senatorial District.
They are mostly supporters of former Governor of the state, Mallam Isa Yuguda who recently joined the GPN after quitting PDP.
They were received by the state Chairman of the NNPP, Engineer Mohammed Barde during the inauguration of the party’s Zonal Office in Azare, Katagum local government area on Saturday.
Barde promised “to carry the new party members along and ensure justice and fairness among its members to make it the strongest opposition party not only in the state but in the country.” He said the NNPP is now the strongest opposition party in the state and it intends to serve the people and save the citizens from anti democracy oriented parties.
He described the development as “a great victory for NNPP and democracy in the state.”
Also speaking, the leader of the defectors, Farouk, pointed out that they decided to defect to the NNPP because they were, “not getting dividends of democracy at the state level and the party is a youth driven party.”
According to him, they resolved to move to NNPP after consultations and came to understand that there is no strong opposition party like NNPP in the state.
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