17,000 APC Members Defect to PDP in Taraba

More than 17,000 members of the All Progressives Congress including a governorship aspirant under the party have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party in Taraba state.

The aspirant Yusufu Akirikwen and two other aspirants staged a walk out at Jolly Nyame Stadium, the venue of the APC primary election.

While announcing his defection at a rally of the governorship candidate of PDP, Dickson Ishaku in Jalingo, Taraba State capital, Akirikwen said he defected because of lack of internal democracy in APC.

He said “Four of us contested to be the flag bearer of the party in the state, one person out of us hijacked the whole process, we complain to the national secretariat of the party and nobody has ever call us.”