NNPP top officials join PDP in Kaduna

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) Secretary and former Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has received some top members of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) who agreed to decamp from the party over the weekend.

The decision of members of the NNPP to cross-carpet to PDP was on the heels of the exit of the former Commissioner of Information in Kaduna State, Rabiu Bako, and a few other PDP members who also decamped from the party.

Besides, the NNPP decampees said they had a series of meetings with a National Leader of the PDP and former Governor, Makarfi, and were convinced that the PDP is the party with the solution to the myriads of problems stifling growth and development in Nigeria.

The Kaduna State Chairman of the NNPP, Alhaji Akilu Kabo, State Secretary, Philip Ladan, other state executives, and their supporters said they’ve concluded plans to join the PDP.

Senator Makarfi, who spoke to the NNPP officials in Kaduna, said Nigerians are seeing the difference between the PDP and the All Progressives Congress (APC) considering the welfare of citizens, governance, and the economy of the country.

Senator Makarfi said that they are welcome to the PDP and each official with their supporters should go and register to be members of the party in their local wards, adding that when arrangements are concluded, they would be welcome officially to the party at a colorful ceremony.

The NNPP Kaduna State Secretary, Philip Ladan, said that they decided to dump the NNPP because “it lacked the vision and capacity to rescue Nigeria from the present harsh economic realities,” adding that in view of that, “all the state executive of the NNPP, local government exco and their supporters have decided to be in the PDP.”

By Saxone Akhaine, Kaduna