2,000 members of the All Progressives Congress in Suleja that decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party said they dumped the opposition party because they were made to swear by the Quran\u200e.<\/p>\n
Speaking on behalf of the defectors on Monday, Alhaji Abdullahi L. Suleiman, who was a three-time Suleja Council chairman, \u200esaid they had to leave the APC because the party had no direction.<\/p>\n
According to Suleiman: \u201cWe were made to swear by the Holy Quran and vow we will abide by rules and directives from the party, which to me shows it is a fanatic party.<\/p>\n
\u201dAPC is the only party that will make you swear with the Quran to abide by rules and directives of the party, which we did, but when we discovered that it is all deceit, we had to leave the party back to the PDP where we left from.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to return to the party that we can see its structures and development on ground because there is no ward in the 25 Local Government Councils in the state that has not received dividend of democracy through the Ward Development Project.\u201d<\/p>\n
Suleiman also stated that the over 2,000 defectors are from 10 wards in the state, adding that more will join them soon.\u200e<\/p>\n
He added that he was not financially induced to return to the PDP but that he returned because of his conviction that the party has better things in stock for the people of the state.
\nFurthermore, he said people are worried about continuity of some policies of the Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu\u2019azu Babangida Aliyu, adding that voting for the APC will mean discontinuation of the policies like paying of NECO and WAEC fees, which is difficult for some parents to pay.
\nSpeaking after he received them into the party, Governor Aliyu said most people who left the PDP felt that the popularity of the APC because of the presidential candidate was going to \u201ccatch fire\u201d but when reality dawned on them that it was a party revolving around one person, they had to come back home.
\n\u201cThey had to come back to what they are used to because the APC has no structure,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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