An ex-national chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali, and the candidate of the NNPP for the March 18 governorship election in Kaduna State, Senator Sulaiman Othman Hunkuyi, have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress–APC party.
Alkali and Hunkuyi were welcomed to their new party on Tuesday by the national chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Ganduje.
Additionally, a former national legal adviser of NNPP, Prof. Ben Angwe, together with 23 others from NNPP and PDP, had joined the ruling party.
Alkali, who have a speech on behalf of the defectors, had remarked that they had not joined APC because it was the ruling party in the country at present, but because it was the best path to take if they wanted to make progress political-wise.
Meanwhile Ganduje, in response to the mass defection to his political party had claimed that NNPP had been expropriated and polluted by the ‘Kwankwassiya’ association.
The APC national chairman had thereafter, promised that the defectors would be given an equal playing field and carried along in the overall scheme of things in the party.
