No fewer than 18 governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress are expected to receive Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State in the party on Tuesday.
The Chairman, Publicity Sub-committee organising ceremony and Zamfara State ZCommissioner for Information, Alhaji Ibrahim Dosara, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Gusau on Monday.
Information filtered in on Sunday that Matawalle had declared his intention to join the APC from the Peoples Democratic Party, the platform on which he was elected.
Dosara said: “The Progressive Governors will be led by the APC Chairman Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala-Buni.
“We are also expecting all our National Assembly members as well as state legislators to declare their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to the APC during the occasion.
“Similarly, all the 14 local government caretaker committee chairmen who just finished their tenure, as well as council members and teeming supporters will join the hundreds of thousands of the Matawalle loyalists, friends and supporters in our movement to our new party, the APC.”
Dosara said the event would further unite politicians and strengthen the APC in the state.
Also speaking, Mohammed Mamman, Director General, Press Affairs to Mala-Buni, said the Yobe State Governor had been able to convince three governors to defect to the APC.
Mamman said: “With Matawalle joining the APC, it means Mala-Buni, as the chairman of the Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee, has been able to convince three governors into the party.
“(The others) are Dave Umuahi of Ebonyi, and Prof. Ben Ayade of Cross River.
“This is also a confirmation that the APC is doing well both at the national and state levels under the purposeful, focused and people-oriented leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari.”
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