Two PDP officials join APC in Gombe
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Leadership
The People's Democratic Party officials in Kwami and Nafada, in Gombe State, have left their party to join the ruling All Progressives Congress. Idris Abubakar Yayayi and Yusuf Isa Jigawa say they want to transfer their local networks to the APC ahead of the 2027 general elections, according to Leadership.
Two local officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Gombe State have left the opposition to join the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling party, Leadership newspaper reports. They are Alhaji Idris Abubakar Yayayi, PDP chairman in the Kwami local government area, and Alhaji Yusuf Isa Jigawa, his counterpart in Nafada.
The two officials announced their departure after separate meetings with Gombe Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, organised with the support of Senator Usman Bayero Nafada, who coordinates the APC campaign council in Gombe. They submitted their resignation letters to officials of their local PDP branches and pledged to transfer their political structures, local networks and support to the APC ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Governor Yahaya welcomed the two defectors and said their arrival would strengthen APC structures and mobilisation at local level. The two former PDP officials, for their part, expressed their willingness to participate in the ruling party's political activities and praised the governor's leadership.
