A former governor of Katsina State, Alhaji Ibrahim Shema, officially switched his allegiance to the All Progressives Congress on Thursday.

This is just as the current governor, Dikko Radda, described Shema’s defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to the ruling party as homecoming.

Shema, who held office from 2007 to 2015 under the banner of the PDP, completed his registration at the Shema Ward party office in the Dutsin-ma Local Government Area.

He was warmly received into the APC and was issued his membership card by the state’s party chairman, Alhaji Sani Aliyu-Daura.

Aliyu-Daura thanked Radda and his predecessor, former Governor Aminu Masari, for their efforts in facilitating Shema’s defection to the APC.

In Dutsin-ma, Alhaji Jabiru Abdullahi-Tasuri, the Chief of Staff to Governor Radda, presented Shema with his membership card on behalf of the governor, as reported by NAN.

Abdullahi-Tasuri quoted the governor as saying that the party had achieved a significant milestone by welcoming such a prominent figure from the opposition.



“This marks a historic shift in the political landscape of the state, the defection is a homecoming and a reunion with political family members,” the governor said.

Radda reminisced about Shema and Masari’s past service under the leadership of the late former President Umaru Musa Yar’adua.

Shema, in his remarks, said his reason for joining the APC was to contribute to the development of both the state and the nation as a whole.

In reaction to Shema’s defection, Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, succinctly remarked, “PDP’s big loss in Katsina, APC’s big gain.”

In the fight against cross-border banditry, the Niger Armed Forces have apprehended a notorious Nigerian bandit kingpin known as Kachallah Mai Daji near the border town of Illela, Niger.

According to Zagazola Makama, a security analyst and counter-insurgency expert, Kachallah Mai Daji has left a trail of terror and devastation across northeastern Nigeria over the past decade.

“He has killed dozens of people, burnt down villages, kidnapped hundreds and imposed levies on villages for almost ten years,” Zagazola Makama said

The bandit leader was said to be particularly active in the Illela region, terrorising villages such as Tozai, Sabon Garin Darna, Darna Tsolawo, Tudun Gudali, Basanta, Ɗan Kadu, Takalmawa, Gidan Hamma, Ambarura, Gidan Bulutu and many others in the surrounding areas.

Kachallah Mai Daji was captured by Nigerien forces as he attempted to rustle livestock across the Nigeria-Niger border.

“He was apprehended by Nigerien forces when he tried to rustle livestock through the country border,” the report added.

On Sunday, no fewer than 11 persons reportedly died and five injured when two vehicles drove over suspected bandit’s landmines in Gamboru-Ngala and Dikwa local government areas of Borno State.

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What have you (govs, elders, youth and women) been able to do about the baby factories that are everywhere in your region? You don't agree that getting married is by far better than being put in baby factories?