No fewer than 5,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have allegedly defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state in the last five months.
This was disclosed on Thursday by the Vice chairman of APC in Kaduna, Alhaji Abubakar Rilwanu, adding that the new entrants cut across five local government areas of the Northern Senatorial District of the state that include Zaria, Giwa, Soba, Kubau and Ikara.
He said: “Defection to APC has now become a routine affair. As I am talking to you, we have so far received more than 5,000 defectors spread across the senatorial district who surrendered their PDP membership cards.
“Just yesterday (Wednesday), I received about 1,500 defectors at a village called Chijaki in Kubau Local Government Area. These people are from seven polling units in the area.
“In Ikara local government, we also received many defectors and most of these people were complaining that the government of the day takes things for granted by deceiving people, especially in projects accomplishment.”
Rilwanu claimed that some of the defecting PDP members complained that they have supported PDP in the previous elections, only to be neglected.
He said that APC expects “to receive more than 10,000 people, mainly from PDP,” before the forthcoming elections.
Only on Wednesday, the National Coordinator for President Goodluck Jonathan’s support group, (Jonathan Shall Lead Again), (JOSLA), Comrade Curtis Ugbo, defected to the APC.
According to Daily Trust, Ugbo, nicknamed the ‘peoples Speaker’ who abandoned Jonathan and declared support for the APC presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari, defected with thousands of his supporters on Thursday.
