APC tightens grip on Gombe Assembly as last PDP lawmaker defects

A lawmaker representing Billiri East Constituency successful the Gombe State House of Assembly, Yakubu Daniel (Shetiman Bare), has officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The defection further strengthened the dominance of the ruling APC successful the authorities legislature, arsenic Daniel was the past remaining PDP lawmaker successful the Gombe State House of Assembly.

Daniel formally announced his defection connected Saturday astatine the Government House successful Gombe, wherever helium was received by Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya.

He was accompanied by the Speaker of the State Assembly and different lawmakers during the visit.

Explaining the crushed down his decision, Daniel said his determination followed a bid of earlier defections by absorption lawmakers, including members of the number enactment who had antecedently crossed implicit to the APC.

He besides attributed his determination to what helium described arsenic the people-centred enactment benignant of Governor Yahaya, which helium said has continued to pull enactment crossed governmental divides.

Governor Yahaya welcomed the development, describing the defection arsenic a wide motion of increasing assurance successful the APC-led medication successful Gombe State.

“This is simply a beardown ballot of assurance successful our leadership, our policies and our inclusive benignant of governance. For the past remaining absorption subordinate successful the Assembly to instrumentality this measurement speaks volumes astir the di...