Secret Reporters No place to hide
Fejiro Oliver
Information reaching Elombah.com indicates that 27 out of the 30 members of Sokoto State House of Assembly who are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC) today Wednesday.
According to an an online Newspaper, the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Malami Basakkwace, confirmed over the telephone that the members decided to move to the APC to follow the state governor, Aliyu Wamakko, who was one of the five governors that defected to the APC.
“We are moving in line the decision of his Excellency Governor Aliyu Wamakko to also move over to the APC,” he said. The defectors include the speaker of the assembly and other principal officials.
The lawmaker noted that pressure from their constituency made them to move, coupled with the fact that the PDP was in crisis
Governor Wamakko is among the rebel governors who moved with five other governors to the APC
