The All Progressives Congress has gained the Zamfara Labour Party (LP) vice-governor candidate, three senatorial candidates, and seven candidates for the House of Representatives (APC).
Alhaji Sule Dansadau, candidate for deputy governor; Yahaya Audi Mafara, candidate for senator in Zamfara West; Alhaji Sani Yusuf Danmasami, candidate for senator in Zamfara Central; and Engineer Adamu Yakubu, candidate for senator in Zamfara North, joined the APC.
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Seven LP candidates for the House of Representatives and fourteen out of the nineteen candidates for the House of Assembly joined the APC.
At an organised defection ceremony in Talat-Mafara Local Government Area, they were greeted by Abdulaziz Yari, the chairman of the Zamfara 2023 governorship campaign council.
At the ceremony, the state chairman of the APC, Hon. Tukur Umar Danfulani was represented by his deputy, Alhaji Hassan Marafa Damri. He expressed his delight at their decision to join the APC, which he described as a tremendous asset to the party.
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Damri emphasised that all right-thinking natives of Zamfara must be passionate about the state’s peace and stability and must therefore work together to advance the state.
Yari praised their defection, stating that they made the prudent choice by abandoning their political ambitions and joining the ruling APC.
He reassured them that the APC is a party for the people of Zamfara, given its previous dominance of power under the defunct APP, the ANPP, and now the APC.
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In their respective declarations, the vice-governorship candidate and senatorial candidate for Zamfara Central, speaking on behalf of other defectors, stated that they had renounced their respective ambitions to support the APC due to the peace and stability brought about by the reconciliation between former governor Abdulaziz Yari and current governor Bello Muhammad Matawalla.
They promised to mobilise all of their supporters during the election and to vote for all APC candidates.
