No fewer than 5,060 members of the All Progressives Congress in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party.
The leader of the defectors, Adbullahi Bafala, while addressing a mammoth crowd during a rally in Bununu, the headquarters of Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area, said they took the decision to move to the PDP because of the massive infrastructural development recorded under the leadership of Governor Bala Mohammed in less than three years.
He said, “I left APC to join PDP with 5,060 followers. What impressed me was the good work of the governor. He is working for the people of Bauchi State and not for his pocket. “I cried when l saw the work he did on the Tafawa Balewa road to Yelwa Duguri, 52 kilometres road. It was a virgin land and the people of the area suffered for a long time because of the terrible road. Now we are smiling becauae of that road. We are praying to God that he would be re-elected to construct more roads linking the grassroots areas to Tafawa Balewa and beyond.”
Receiving the defectors in Bununu, Governor Mohammed said they made the right choice, adding that the APC was becoming more unpopular in Nigeria. Mohammed assured the defectors that they would be carried along and urged the people of Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area to support all the candidates of the PDP in the forthcoming general elections.
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