Alhaji Aminu Umar Sidi Yan’leman, a founding member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Jigawa State, has defected from the party to the opposition, All Progressive Congress (APC).
Sidi, an associate of Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa state, who announced his defection yesterday, told newsmen in Kano that he was leaving the PDP because of lack of internal democracy, Daily Trust reports.
“From today, I have renounced my membership of the PDP in view of the lack of internal democracy orchestrated by the leadership of the party in Jigawa State. As a result of my leaving the PDP, I’m joining the All Progressives Congress (APC),” he stated.
Sidi, a member of the House of Representatives in the 90s under the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) disclosed that he was moving with hundreds of his supporters from across the Hadejia emirate area of the state.
According to him, the APC was more coordinated during the primaries in Jigawa State unlike the PDP, adding that that the development would negatively affect the fortunes of the PDP in Jigawa State in the forthcoming general elections.
