- Chief John Oyegun said hundreds of thousands of PDP members has defected to the APC in Kastina state
- Oyegun said a two time speaker of the state House Assembly, Nura Khalih also a two-time governorship candidate of the ANPP all defected to party
- He also called on the people of the state to give maximum support to President Buhari to enable him continue in his leadership of the country
Chief John Oyegun, the national chairman of All Progressive Congress (APC) on Saturday, March 10, declared the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Katsina state as “dead and buried”.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oyegun made the declaration in the state during a grand reception organized by the state APC chapter to receive prominent politicians who defected to his party from the PDP.
He said since hundreds of thousands of PDP members had defected to APC, then the party was completely dead and buried.
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According to him, ''Prominent politicians like Sen Idah, Barrister Ya’u Gwajo-Gwajo, a two time speaker of Katsina House Assembly, and Nura Khalih also a two-time governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) have all defected to APC today.
Since PDP prominent politicians have defected to APC in Kastina, opposition party can't survive - Oyegun
''Now that prominent people and their followers have joined the APC, then, we have the right to declare PDP, APGA, and PDM as dead and buried in the state.
Oyegun called on the people of the state to give maximum support to President Buhari to enable him continue in his leadership of the country.
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He said: ''When the APC administration took over the mantle of leadership in 2015, the Nation Electricity supply was only 3000 megawatts.
''Today, the electricity supply is 7000 megawatts. The country has witnessed an increase of 4000 megawatts.''
Oyegun revealed that the president had used his experience to control insecurity in the country to its barest minimum.
The chairman said that President Buhari had introduced several ways of reducing poverty through giving agriculture and economic empowerment to the people.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that the APC in the state asked the chairman of PDP in the state Salisu Majigiri, to defect to the ruling party.
Alhaji Bala Musawa who is the Zonal vice chairman of the ruling party said the PDP only existed in name and urged Majigiri to move to the APC.
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Source: Naija.ng