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PDP Chieftain, others defect to NNPP in Jigawa

A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jigawa has dumped the party alongside many loyalists, defecting to the New Nigerian People Party (NNPP).

Former northwest ex-officio, Alhaji Aminu Nuhu Jahun, who recently resigned his membership from PDP on alleged intimidation by the members of the State Working Committee (SWC), led the other party loyalists to the NNPP.

Speaking to newsmen while formally registering his membership at NNPP Jahun ward office, Alhaji Aminu Nuhu Jahun said “I want formally announce my defection into New Nigeria People’s Party NNPP today as I received my membership card at my polling unit in Jahun”.

He noted, “Let me use this opportunity and call all my supporters to go register with NNPP at all their respective political wards in Jahun, Jigawa and northwest”.

“I took the decision and chose to join this party (NNPP) after careful observation and convinced with the party’s manifestos, rules and regulations in its constitution”.

He also thanked the PDP for giving him membership and various positions within the party for almost 24 years. He then promised to work hard for the success of NNPP at local, state and national level.

Speaking after receiving the defectors, the ward chairman of NNPP comrade Ibrahim Malam welcomed the decampees and promised to treat them equal with any party member.

He described Jahun as a big asset to the party when taken into consideration his vast political experience spanning over two decades. Hoped that with his entrance into the party, the fortune of the NNPP would receive a big boost ahead of the 2027 general elections.

When contacted, the Jigawa state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman, Honourable Ali Idris Diginsa, via a telephone conversation said “You knew you can’t stop somebody what he wanted to said. Aminu is in title to his opinion and said what he wishes to say.

“First of all, PDP did not expel him. He was accused of an offence in which he had been invited and hear from him. He confessed commiting the offense”.

According to the chairman, “what he did is against the party, is a clear contravening the PDP constitution. As his position he supposed not done what he did”.

“We told him, he is responsible and respectable in the party. He has all regard in the party.

“At the end, on his own, he decided to leave the party. As you know any person chooses to be a member of a party. Nobody will force him. He (Aminu) chooses to be a PDP member and now chooses to dump the party. He has the right”.

“But his claimed of leading hundreds out of PDP is not true. He himself knows it is not true. He made a post on his Facebook wall the people commented are not upto ten, where is the hundreds. It is not true”. Diginsa said.

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