{"id":161862,"date":"2025-05-10T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc"},"modified":"2025-05-10T13:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T12:16:56","slug":"pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc","title":{"rendered":"PDP in last-minute push to stop three senators\u2019 defection to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kebbi State is making frantic and last-minute efforts to prevent the planned defection of three serving senators to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, DAILY POST learnt.<\/p>\n<p>Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the senators: Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central), Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi (Kebbi North) and Garba Maidoki (Kebbi South), are expected to formally declare their defection to the APC on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a high-level meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers were led to the meeting on Friday by the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje and are reportedly set to defect alongside a large number of supporters, including serving and former PDP executives across all three senatorial districts in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The move has rattled the state chapter of the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Our reporter gathered that on Friday night that the PDP State Chairman, Usman Bello-Suru summoned an emergency meeting of party stakeholders in a bid to halt the looming political exodus.<\/p>\n<p>A source at the meeting disclosed that members weighed multiple strategies, including the possibility of obtaining a court injunction or making personal appeals to the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>However, the consensus was to engage the senators directly and urge them to stay and strengthen the party at a critical time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral options were explored, including legal steps, but it was agreed that the best approach would be to convince them to remain in the PDP and continue building what they\u2019ve helped to establish over the years,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>However, efforts to reach the senators have proven difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the defection news broke, they have stopped picking calls from the party chairman,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n<p>This crisis comes just weeks after the same PDP chairman, Usman Bello-Suru, issued a public statement dismissing rumours of defection within the party.<\/p>\n<p>He said then, \u201cIn a swift reaction to the insinuations that some members of the PDP in the state are making arrangements to defect to the ruling party, I assure our members that PDP remains one indivisible entity that will continue to play an opposition role in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unfolding events appear to contradict that reassurance, especially with a high-profile figure like Senator Aliero, a former two-term governor of Kebbi, ex-Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, and sitting senator, at the centre of the planned defection.<\/p>\n<p>Aliero is no stranger to political cross-carpeting, having previously left and rejoined the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Some party members, however, remain stoic in the face of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they decide to leave, life goes on,\u201d a senior PDP chieftain said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPDP is like a military barracks, soldiers come, soldiers go, but the barracks remains,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Should the defections go ahead as expected, the APC\u2019s numerical strength in the 10th Senate will rise to 68, while the PDP will be reduced to 30.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kebbi State is making frantic and last-minute efforts to prevent the planned defection of three serving senators to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, DAILY POST learnt. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the senators: Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central), Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi (Kebbi North) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":161861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,254,65],"class_list":["post-161862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDP in last-minute push to stop three senators\u2019 defection to APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kebbi State is making frantic and last-minute efforts to prevent ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP in last-minute push to stop three senators\u2019 defection to APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kebbi State is making frantic and last-minute efforts to prevent ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-10T11:11:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-10T12:16:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746866838.583388.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"812\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"452\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP in last-minute push to stop three senators\u2019 defection to APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-10T11:11:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-10T12:16:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc\"},\"wordCount\":494,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746866838.583388.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-in-last-minute-push-to-stop-three-senators-defection-to-apc\",\"name\":\"PDP in last-minute push to stop three senators\u2019 defection to APC - 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