The majority of the members of the Sokoto State House of Assembly have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. Twenty seven out of the thirty members of the Assembly took the decision to move the APC on Wednesday, law makers said. The Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Malami Basakkwace, informed reporters over the telephone that the members decided to move to the APC to follow the state governor, Aliyu Wamakko, who was one of the five governors that defected to the APC. “We are moving in line the decision of his Excellency Governor Aliyu Wamakko to also move over to the APC,” he said. The defectors include the speaker of the assembly and other principal officials. Mr. Basakkwace also said since the defection of the governors, people from the 27 constituencies have mounted pressure on the legislators to follow the governor. He added that the crisis in the PDP, which led to the factionalisation o...
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