Former Kaduna State Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Yaro
Makama, amongst others on Tuesday
defected to the All Progressives Congress
in the state.
Others that defected with the former PDP
chairman were ex-commissioners in both
the administrations of Senator Ahmed
Makarfi and the late Patrick Yakowa, and
70 other party members in the state.
The late Yakowa’s Campaign Director-
General during the 2011 elections,
Ambassador Sule Buba, and former
Chairman of Kaduna South Local
Government Area, Alhaji Auwal Tafoki,
were among the top party men that
moved to the main opposition party.
They(defectors) were received by the APC
Interim Chairman in the state and former
INEC Secretary, Hakeem Baba- Ahmed at a
guest house at Malali GRA , Kaduna.
At the gathering, the former PDP
chairman in the state said injustice in PDP
forced them to leave the party to join the
APC.
Describing the gale of defection in the
country as a political revolution, saying
the defectors would not “wait to be
consumed by it.”
He said, “We cannot wait to be
consumed by the political revolution that
is happening in this country. The injustice
in PDP is one reason why we left the party
to the APC. As you can see most of the
people here are PDP members that have
played a great role in its development.
“We cannot wait in a party that cannot
provide infrastructure to people of the
state. This is why we want those in the
PDP to know that I hardly join a party that
I know will not deliver. So by 2015 APC
will win elections in Kaduna.”