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<\/p>\nGov. Bello Matawalle and the state\u2019s PDP executives had on Sunday received a large number of defectors from APC in Maradun Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, NAN reports.<\/p>\n
But Alhaji Lawal Liman, the state APC Chairman told newsmen on Tuesday in Gusau that the whole defection was a charade.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is mere propaganda aimed at deceiving the public, some media organisations, reported that 21, 000 APC members defected to PDP while others said they were 50,000, we don\u2019t know which one is true, let them clear this figure first,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Liman accused the PDP led administration in the state of intimidating and forcing APC members to join PDP.<\/p>\n
According to him, most of those who defected to PDP in Maradun were forced by the PDP led government in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know APC is a party of progress, the people enjoyed meaningful development across all sectors during the immediate past APC-led administration in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why the people, especially in rural communities, are still behind the APC in the state,\u2019\u2019 Liman said.<\/p>\n
Alhaji Sa\u2019adu Gora, the Maradun APC Chairman said the alleged mass defection to PDP was not true.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of those who left the party in Maradun left alone, but bigwigs have remained with us.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs leaders of the party at the grassroots, we are enjoying support and cooperation from our members, even though our party is not in power at the state level,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that there was no mass defection of its members to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Zamfara as alleged by the State Government. Gov. Bello Matawalle and the state\u2019s PDP executives had on Sunday received a large number of defectors from APC in Maradun Local Government Area (LGA) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2658,29,58],"class_list":["post-167209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-apc","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}