Over 600 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State.
Receiving the decampees during the PDP ward Congress at his Kabala Doki ward in Kaduna North Local Government area on Saturday, Vice President Namadi Sambo welcomed them with open arms and thanked them for their decision to join the PDP, assuring them that they will be given a level playing ground in their new party.
He stressed that PDP has the interest of the people at heart and assured the decampees that they will work together to ensure that the party gets victory in 2015.
According to Sambo, the successful conduct of the ward congress in the state and other parts of the country is a sign that PDP will emerge victorious in 2015 election.
Party members came out in their large numbers to elect delegates who will represent them in the forthcoming primary. This ward congress signaled the commencement of political activities in preparation for the primaries and the main election next year. At the end of the exercise, three delegates were elected in each of the 255 wards in the state.
Vice President Sambo while describing the exercise as peaceful and orderly, assured Nigerians that good governance will be sustained by the PDP led federal government across the country and also thanked them for their support to the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
On the 2015 election, Sambo urged members of the Peoples Democratic Party and other political parties to ensure that the election is conducted in a peaceful atmosphere devoid of any violence.
The PDP members pledged their support to the PDP led government at both the federal and state.
