The Deputy Chairman of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Yunusa Umar, at the weekend led about 7,500 members of the opposition party, including two other executive members, to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Umar alongside APC Youth Leader, Yusuf Inuwa Bora and Welfare Secretary, Isah Zakaria with their supporters were received into their new party by the PDP Chairman in the area, Hon Yusuf Sabo and the Executive Chairman, Dass Local Government Area, Honourable Mohammed Abubakar Jibo.
Speaking at a brief ceremony to welcome the defectors into PDP held at the party secretariat in Dass, Umar said their decision to defect to the ruling PDP in the state is as a result of the performance of the state Governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, whose policies and programmes since assumption of office in 2019 are people-oriented.