Former Senator representing Jigawa Northwest, Danladi Sankara, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party to join the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Sankara was received by governor of Jigawa, Muhammad Badaru, at the Malam Aminu Kano triangle Square on Sunday in Dutse.
Badaru said that the defection of the former senator was a welcome development to the party in the state.
The governor said that the APC had “caught a big fish, because of Sankara’s pedigree in his former party”.
“With his defection to APC, PDP is completely dead in Jigawa because Sankara is one of the founders of PDP in the country and the person that brought it to Jigawa,’’ he added.
Badaru also pointed out the myriad of problems left by the previous administration of PDP at both state and federal levels resulting in President Muhammadu Buhari giving out bailouts to states.
John Oyegun, National chairman of APC, who was represented at the ceremony by chairman of the party in the Northwest, Shuaibu Lawal, assured that Sankara would be treated fairly like other members of the party.
While declaring that he was joining the party with 8,905 of his supporters, Sankara pledged to work for the unity and progress of the party, to win all elections in the state and at the federal level.
The former lawmaker was one time National Vice chairman, PDP Northwest geopolitical zone and Sole Administrator of the party in Sokoto state.
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