The ranks of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was seriously depleted on Thursday, when the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Aminu Mohammed Achida, defected from the to the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state
The Speaker, who defected with the Assembly’s deputy Chief Whip, Hon. Murtala Maigona, stated in a letter he sent to the House thathis decision to leave the APC was as a result of un resolvable crisis that is rocking the party in the state.
Maigona, a political godson of former Governor and current Senator, Aliyu Magatakardan Wamakko, trepresents Wammako state constituency.
The letter reads: “Our decision to defect to PDP is in order to pursue our political ambition in congenial atmosphere devoid of division, factionalisation and crisis.
“The APC has throughout its history remained a motley of different interest groups, especially in Sokoto state.
“This is where three different state congresses were held at three different places by three rival factions with Sen. Aliyu Wamakko faction electing Isa Sadiq-Achida as state party chairman.
“Another faction of Sen. Abubakar Gada, electing Mainasara Sani, as state chairman, while the other faction of Balarabe Salame, held their congress and elected Sirajo Abubakar as state APC chairman,” he said.
The speaker added that the ugly developments has plunged the APC into serious litigations in several states of the federation, thereby, putting the party in serious and present danger leading to mass defection in some states of the federation.
“We are irked and worried by the factionalisation, division and acrimony among three the factions in the state and we have to avoid a repeat of Zamfara and River states situation.
