No fewer than 2,509 members of the Peoples Democrat
Party (PDP), on Monday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC)
in Sandamu Local Government area of Katsina State.

 Gov. Aminu Masari received the defectors in Sandamu during his electioneering campaign in the area.

He said his administration would soon embark
on general renovation of Sandamu general hospital and construct township
roads across eleven electoral wards in the area.

Masari said his administration has executed
numerous development projects including 40km Fago- Katsayal-
Kwasarawa-Jirdede-Koza road.

He said that the roads linked communities in the area with those in Maiadua local government area.

The governor added that the administration
also rehabilitated 75 km Sandamu-Baure- Babban Mutum road and drilled
150 boreholes across the area.

Earlier, the state APC Chairman, Malam Shitu
Masalaha, described the defectors as wise men who chose are to join the
bandwagon of salvation and transformation .

He assured them that they would be treated as
full members of the party, with all the rights and privileges due to all
APC members.

Malam Sani Sabo, who addressed the mammoth
crowd of party supporters on behalf of the defectors, assured that their
decision to join the ruling party was not attached to any condition,
but were motivated by the superb performance of the APC led government
across tiers of government .

Sabo pledged to mobilise votes for
President Muhammadu Buhari and Gov. Masari stressing, we will galvanize
unprecedented support for the party and PDP will not make any impact
here.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
Masari would spend three days campaigning in Daura Emirate, ahead of the
general elections.

Masari was in company of top government officials and hundreds of party supporters.