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NNPP’s senatorial, Reps candidates, others join APC in Zamfara
The New Nigerians Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate in Zamfara North Senatorial District, Ibrahim Shinkafi, has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
Dahiru Marafa, the media assistant to the former governor of the state, Abdulaziz Yari, confirmed the development in a statement on Monday in Gusau.
Other defectors were the NNPP House of Representatives candidate in Shinkafi and Zurmi Federal Constituency, Alhaji Suleiman Garba, and the party’s treasurer in the state, Suleiman Galadi.
The defectors, according to him, were received by Yari, who is the chairman of the APC governorship campaign council in the state, at Talata Mafara on Monday.
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The statement read: “Kaura-Namoda and Zurmi Local Governments NNPP Chairmen were also among the defectors.
“The defectors also include the Coordinator of the foundation for the actualisation of PDP governorship candidate in 2023, Aminu Kanoma
“Secretary and Treasurer of the foundation, Aminu Saminu, and Hajiya Umulkhairi Aminu, respectively, had also joined the APC.”
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