2019: NNPP receives 15,000 defectors in Bauchi, warns PDP about APC decampees

Chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Bauchi State, Engineer Mohammad Barde has confirmed that his party has so far received about 15,000 defectors from the All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the 2019 elections.

He however advised the PDP to be careful while receiving APC defectors to its fold, alleging that some of the decampees were being sponsored to destroy the opposition party.

Barde stated this in an interview with DAILY POST on Saturday in Bauchi.

He said the crisis rocking APC in the state was an advantage and an opportunity for the NNPP to floor the ruling party during the 2019 elections.

“We have so far received about 15,000 APC members to the NNPP fold with the crisis rocking the party in Bauchi state,” he said.

The chairman stated that it has since discovered an alleged plot by the APC to destroy opposition political parties by contracting mobs to cause friction, stressing that those who recently left NNPP for other political parties were the type of people sent by APC

“Some of them left because they were sponsored by APC to destroy NNPP but we have discovered it and mend fences,” he said.

The chairman then warned PDP to be careful while receiving decampees from the APC to its fold, saying they were sponsored to infiltrate the opposition ahead of the 2019 election

“Failure of the ruling party to provide effective development to the citizens of Bauchi state has forced APC to mobilize mobs to join the opposition” he said.