Sokoto lawmaker dumps APC after losing primary
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by muhammad nasir bello1 a member of sokoto state house of assembly alhaji muhammad bashir who lost in the bid to secure the all progressive congress apc ticket for the house of representatives has dumped the party1 bashir said on the floor of the assembly on wednesday in sokoto that he has now shifted loyalty to the peoples democratic party pdp1 the news agency of nigeria nan reports that bashir was beaten in the primary for yaboshagari federal constituency by alhaji abubakar yabo1 i wish to formally announce my defection from the apc to pdp as provided by section 1091g of the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of nigeria he said1 reacting on the development alhaji sani yakubu apc-gudu said the member had been hobnobbing with the pdp for long addingso this defection has not come to us as a surprise1 yakubu disclosed that even after bashir lost the ticket for the federal constituency the apc still returned his state assembly ticket for him to contest1 we wish him well in his new political party and want to assure apc members in his constituency that his departure will translate into huge success for our party he said1