NNPP denies members’ defection to ADC in Katsina

By Abbas Bamalli

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has denied reports that all its 34 local government chairpersons in Katsina State have dumped the party for the coalition’s African Democratic Congress, ADC.

Alhaji Armaya’u Abdulkadir, the NNPP State Chairman made the rebuttal in a statement issued in Katsina on Monday.

Abdulkadir insisted that no local government chairman has defected to any other party in the state contrary to some publications made in some media organisations and circulated in the social media.

Abdulkadir said, “The attention of the NNPP Katsina chapter has been drawn to some publications made in some media organisations and circulated in the social media.

“The publication revealed that 34 NNPP local government chairmen have defected to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

“The defection, as it was reported, was through the former Secretary to the state government, Alhaji Mustapha Inuwa in Katsina State.

“It is on record, however, that some of our chairmen, after the 2023 presidential elections, defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC).

“Thus, these same people are the ones that defected to the ADC from the APC. Therefore, their defection was from APC, not from NNPP.”

(NAN)