About twenty thousand members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, on Sunday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The development boosted the chances of the PDP reclaiming the state in the 2023 general election.
The event took place in Baure, under the Katsina North Senatorial zone.
The zone is popularly called Daura senatorial zone where President Muhammadu Buhari comes from.
Some defectors are from Mai’adua, Zango and Baure local government areas.
The defectors during the event destroyed their initial party membership cards and burnt the symbol of APC which is the broom
