{"id":102828,"date":"2023-01-30T18:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102828"},"modified":"2023-01-30T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:04:01","slug":"three-reps-members-from-katsina-leave-apc-for-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/three-reps-members-from-katsina-leave-apc-for-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Reps members from Katsina leave APC for PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Three House of Representatives members from Katsina State have defected to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) after meeting privately with the PDP\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in Sokoto Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com source gathered that the APC representatives who ditched their party were Hamza Dalhatu (Rimi\/Charanci\/Batagarawa constituency), Salisu Iro (Katsina constituency) and Ahmad Dayyabu (Danmusa\/Batsari\/Safana constituency). Two businessmen, owners of NAK Enterprises, Bilyaminu Funtua and Kabir Kabir \u2013 Bilya who were also prominent members of the APC decided to join the PDP after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The trio of legislators failed in their bid to secure a return ticket to the lower chamber of the National Assembly during last year\u2019s APC primary elections.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the source the legislators had earlier expressed their desire to leave the APC but needed to meet with the PDP Atiku before taking the leap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know we had leadership issues in the party (PDP) in Katsina state. They (legislators) wanted to decamp but were not sure of how they would be received but when Oga (Mr Inuwa) convinced them, they asked to be given assurance they would be accorded the same respect as other party members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmediately after our rally in Charanci, he (Mr Inuwa) reached out to Atiku and a decision was taken to take the decampees to Sokoto. They are with us here and will go to Zamfara today (Monday) for the presidential rally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While Messrs Dayyabu and Iro were yet to announce their exit from the party prior to the Sunday meeting, Mr Dalhat had in a letter addressed to his Batagarawa Ward \u201cA\u201d party chairman announced his exit from the APC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three House of Representatives members from Katsina State have defected to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) after meeting privately with the PDP\u2019s presidential candidate,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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