Senator Grace Bent, a prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has formally defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), carrying along thousands of supporters.
This was made known in a statement on Saturday titled ‘Senator Grace, thousands join APC in Adamawa’, signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the Executive Governor of Jigawa State on New Media, Auwal Sankara.
The statement read, “Senator Grace Folashade Bent has decamped from the People’s Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressive Congress along with thousands of supporters in Adamawa.
“Grace Folashade Bent nee Makinwa Bent, who represented Adamawa South between 2007 and 2011 under the PDP, said she had had enough of the party during a ceremony where she was received into the APC in Yola on Saturday.
“The Executive Governor of Jigawa State, who is also the contact and strategic committee chair of the APC, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar: the Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu; Senator Ken Nnamani were among the top APC officials that received her.
While addressing the gathering, Governor Mohammed Badaru Abubakar assures Nigerians that APC will deliver by the grace of God come 2023 elections.
According to the Governor, the achievements recorded by the Buhari-led administration are the primary reason why daily, politicians are trooping in thousands into the All Progressive Congress.”
The statement quoted Abubakar as saying, “It is because of how the APC is delivering dividends of democracy and the numerous achievements recorded in the last six years of the Buhari-led administration is what is making people dump other parties and join our party.”
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