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Kwara 2019: PDP loses 500 members to APC in fresh defection

- The PDP has again lost 500 members to the APC in Kwara state

- The new defectors are former PDP members in Ekiti local government area of Kwara state

- Receiving the new APC members, the Kwara APC chairman urged them to add values to the party both at the state and national values

No fewer than 500 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti local government area of Kwara state at the weekend reportedly defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Kwara state chairman of the APC, Bashir Bolarinwa, while receiving the former PDP members in Obo-Aiyegunle, assured them that they would be accorded equal rights and privileges being enjoyed by old members, The Punch reports.

Bolarinwa urged them to add value to the party both in the state and at the national level, adding that the task ahead was enormous.

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He challenged them to work for the success of the party in the upcoming elections by ensuring victory for all the candidates including the governorship, senatorial, National Assembly and state House of Assembly candidates.

The APC state chairman promised to work with the new members without discrimination.

Bolarinwa said the fortunes of the party in the local government area and Obo-Aiyegunle, in particular, would continue to increase with the coming on board of the defectors .

He also thanked party members for the success in the November 17 House of Representatives by-election.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the PDP in Kwara state “is sinking and in total disarray” and had resorted to cheap blackmail against the APC.

The minister stated this on Friday, December 28, in Ilorin after a meeting with a cross section of APC Executive Council in the state led by the factional chairman, Bashir Bolarinwa.

Mohammed was reacting to a social media report that he allegedly masterminded the live coverage and disruption of a community event by the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU) in the state capital.

The minister denied the social media report stressing that it was the handiwork of the “sinking PDP”.

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