Nasir Shuaibu, BAUCHI
Barely a week after the Presidential candidate of the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) Eng. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso visit Bauchi state, thousands of supporters from the party have defeated and decamped to the rolling People Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
The decamppees in their thousands besieged the NUJ secretariat in Bauchi led by Dr Babayo Liman and declared their support to the opposition party PDP in the State.
The group leader, Babayo Liman who was once National Coordinator Northeast, State Coordinator, said Nigeria needs a good leader who knows how to handle all parts of the country and Atiku Abubakar is the answer.
According to the leader, he believed that only Atiku Abubakar will salvage the country from its present hardship and dwindling economy considering his antecedent as former vice president of the country for good eight years.
In his words, "I'm here at the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Bauchi State Branch to inform the press and the general public that today I Babayo Lyman, have resigned my appointment as National, Zonal Secretary, Member Presidential Campaign, Coordinator of Kwankwasiyya, and also my membership from the party."
"I'm here with some of my executive members and thousands of supporters to declare our intention to joint the People’s Democrstic Party (PDP), and to support the candidacy of Alh Atiku Abubakar as President of Nigeria and Bala Mohammed as Governor of Bauchi state respectively."
"I'm calling on all my supporters in the entire Northeast to follow my steps to decamp from the NNPP to PDP, and also call on my supporters in Bauchi state to do the same."
"I'm also calling on my supporters across all nocks and cranny to support the candidacy of Alh Atiku Abubakar to emerge victorious in the forthcoming general election in the country," he added.
The occasion saw the removal and packaging of the Kwankwasiyya Caps from the NNPP supporters and the presentation of PDP membership cards to the leader, Babayo Liman.
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