The Katsina State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has slammed the state’s ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) for claiming that approximately 1,900 PDP members defected to the APC on Sunday.
WITHIN NIGERIA has learned that the Katsina State PDP has challenged the APC to produce the so-called defector, who it claims abandoned the PDP over the weekend.
According to Premium Times, the PDP’s campaign council spokesperson in the state, Kabir Yar’adu’a, called the APC an “architect of deception and fake news.”
Yar’adu’a disputed the ruling APC’s claim that 1,900 PDP members in Danmusa Local Government defected to the APC on Sunday.
His reaction comes in the wake of a report that the state APC campaign council spokesperson, Ahmed Abdulkadir, claimed that a popular politician in the state, Sani Ab, was among the defectors.
Abdulkadir was reported to have said;
The Katsina State APC gubernatorial candidate, Dr Dikko Umar Radda stormed Ɗanmusa Local Government Area and took over the supporters of the erstwhile Secretary to Katsina State Government, Mustapha Inuwa.
More than 1900 supporters of the former SGS crossed carpets from mainly PDP and other parties into the APC. They were received by the APC Katsina State Gubernatorial Candidate himself, Dr Dikko Radda.
However, the PDP, in its reaction, said the total number of registered voters according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in 10 local government areas, including Danmusa, was 142,261 voters.
The PDP spokesperson submitted that;
How, therefore, APC gets its 1,900 decampees out of that figure? This is apart from those voters who were displaced by banditry, and those who migrated and relocated to other places.
It, therefore, treats our imagination for the Director of APC campaign council to make such callous, unsubstantiated and biased judgment by reportedly conscripting such figure and arriving at wrong conclusion.