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PDP LG chairmen, councillors defect to APC in Sokoto
1 The incumbent Chairman of Tangaza Local Government Council in Sokoto State, Alhaji Bashir Kalanjeni, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP ).
2 The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Kalanjeni defected to the APC alongside eight serving and two former councillors in the area.
3 This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Bashar Abubakar, the Special Assistant to Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto North), on New Media, on Sunday in Abuja.
4 Abubakar listed the councillors as Zakariyya Madugu, Abubakar Kalanjeni, Abubakar Aliyu, Halilu Aliyu, Ibrahim Sarkin-Tudu, Musa Sakkwai, Abdullahi Garba and Jamilu Muhammad.
5 Abubakar named the two ex-councillors as Abdullahi Garba and Jamilu Muhammad.
6 Wamakko, while welcoming them into the party assured that they would be carried along for the development of the party and the state as a whole.
7 He expressed confidence that APC would win the 2023 general elections with landslide victories across Nigeria.
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