Former governor of Jigawa state, Barrister Ali Sa’ad Birnin Kudu, three gubernatorial aspirants alongside many others, have defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The gubernatorial aspirants who defected are Kabiru Tijjani Kiyawa and Mohammed Danladi Auyo, both of the PDP and Ramatu Sabo Elleman of the SDP.
Former commissioners who served under the immediate past government of PDP in the state were also part of the people who decamped.
The national chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who was represented, received the decampees from the state governor, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar.