Over 200 members of the People Democratic Party, PDP, from Guni ward in Munya local government area of Niger State on Saturday dumped the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.
Despite the security challenges facing the area, they came out in their numbers to be received into the APC by the state commissioner for Land and Survey, Maurice Bello Magaji, and some of the local government party Chieftains.
The defectors were the Munya LG PDP Chairman, popularly known as Osama, ward party executives from Guni and led by the former House of Representatives for Munya/Shiroro/Rafi federal constituency Abdullahi Mohammed Ricco.
Also among them was the former member of the state House of Assembly, John Bahago and his supporters.
The latest mass defection of the PDP into the APC is coming barely three weeks after about 150 members of the party, including women and youths who left the main opposition party and switched their allegiance to the ruling party in Gulu Vatsa community in Lapai local government area of the state.
Receiving the decampees, the Commissioner, Maurice Magaji commended them for their decision while assuring them that the APC administration under the leadership of Governor Umaru Mohammed Bago is poised to actualize the “New Niger agenda”
He also assured to carry them along in all the policies and programmes of the government even while soliciting their loyalty to the party and indeed the Government.
Earlier, speaking on behalf of the decampees, Abdullahi Mohammed Ricco and former member, House of Representatives hinged their decision to decamp on the confidence they have in the genuine intention of Governor Bago towards transforming the state with his new Niger agenda.
He added, “What he needs is the support and prayers of all sons and daughters of the state”.
Over 200 PDP members defied insecurity joins APC in Munya LG in Niger