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<\/p>\nAccording to NAN, the defectors are: Tijjani Gaya, former PDP governorship aspirant and former National Assembly member who represented Dutse\/Kiyawa constituency; Danladi Auyo, former PDP governorship aspirant; Hajiya Ramatu Yalleman, former SDP governorship aspirant and Ali Sa\u2019adu Birnin Kudu, a former PDP governorship aspirant and former Governor of the state.<\/p>\n
Others are: Yakubu Ruba, former Commissioner for Justice and PDP lawyer; Alhaji Jinjiri Dutse, former Commissioner under the defunct PDP government in the state; Alhaji Muhammad Harbo, former Commissioner of the defunct PDP government in the state; Alhaji Nasidi Ali, former Commissioner in the defunct PDP government and Hajiya Fatima Widi-Jalo a former commissioner under the defunct Saminu Turaki administration.<\/p>\n
The rest are: Alhaji Muhammad Maifulani; Ali Danazumi; Abba Taura; Alhaji Bura Burin and Alhaji Yusif.<\/p>\n
Receiving the defectors, Gov. Muhammad Badaru said: \u201cThese PDP stalwarts have joined our great party, the APC, with 151,500 of their supporters\u201d.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the APC Chairman in the state, Alhaji Ado Sani, said the defectors decided to join the party having been satisfied with the purposeful leadership of Badaru and President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n
Sani assured the new members of equal treatment by the party.<\/p>\n
According to him, the development marked the end of PDP in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a clear testimony of the acceptance of your leadership and that of President Buhari.<\/p>\n
\u201dAnd this is also a clear indication that Jigawa people are solidly behind you and President Buhari.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis also marks the end of PDP in Jigawa as all the important members have decided that the best place for them to be is APC,\u201d he told the governor.<\/p>\n
Speaking on behalf of the defectors, Yalleman, the former SDP governorship aspirant, promised to work together to ensure the success of the APC during the 2019 general elections.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Four governorship aspirants on the platform of PDP and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Tuesday defected to APC in Jigawa. According to NAN, the defectors are: Tijjani Gaya, former PDP governorship aspirant and former National Assembly member who represented Dutse\/Kiyawa constituency; Danladi Auyo, former PDP governorship aspirant; Hajiya Ramatu Yalleman, former SDP governorship aspirant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39408,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[29,236,58,62,4428],"class_list":["post-68921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-jigawa","tag-pdp","tag-politics","tag-sdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68921","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=68921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}