Over 5000 members of the All Progressives Congress, the dominant party in Kogi State, have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party.Infomation Guide Nigeria
The APC members switched to the PDP on Sunday in Kogi State‘s Avrugo and surrounding wards in the Igalamela/Odolu Local Government Area.
The former vice chairman of the LGA, the Honorable Collins Adama, who led other party members to the PDP, stated that the APC had failed Nigerians.
According to him, it was time for Nigerians to vote out terrible leadership in the general election of 2023, emphasising that any error done now would spell death for the country.
Adamu lauded the leadership style of the local government’s stakeholders and hailed the state and national levels of the major opposition party for electing candidates who can bring the dividends of democracy to all corners of the country.
The defectors were welcomed into the PDP family by the Igalamela/Odolu Local Government PDP Chairman, Honourable Attai Salifu, and the party’s state assembly candidate, Honourable Zakito Umar, who stated that the ruling APC should be prepared to pack their bags in Kogi State and at the national level.
Salifu urged other wards and polling units in the local government to replicate what was occurring in Avurgo, adding that the PDP would win the presidential election of 2023.
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Umar, the former executive chairman of the local government and a candidate for the state legislature, stated that his administration completed nine physical infrastructure projects in the Avrugo ward during his time in office.
Among the physical infrastructure initiatives he enumerated were the construction of bridges, culverts, boreholes, primary health care centres, and recreation centres throughout the ward.
Umar pledged to provide effective and people-focused representation if elected to the Kogi State House of Assembly.
The female leader of the local government, the Honorable Mary Atebije, characterised Umar as a man of competence and ability, adding that he was an outstanding administrator. She asked the electorate to trust him because he has been tried and tested in local government.Jamb Result
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