Gombe: Big blow for Pantami as 3 PDP LGA chairmen, others defect to APC

The political fortunes of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gombe State acquired a major enhance on Sunday following the defection of three Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) native authorities space chairmen and a key marketing campaign coordinator for the PDP governorship candidate, Professor Isa Ali Pantami, to the ruling social gathering.

The decampees are: Hon. Adamu Alhaji Abdu — PDP Chairman, Yamaltu-Deba LGA; Hon. Idris Abubakar Yayari — PDP Chairman, Kwami LGA; Hon. Yusuf Isa Jigawa — PDP Chairman, Nafada LGA.

Others are; Hon. Babangida Usman (Ventures) — Chairman, Pantami Contact Committee (PCC) and PDP Chairman, Gombe Central Senatorial Zone.

The chairmen formally introduced their resignations from the PDP in separate letters addressed to the chairmen of their respective wards earlier than becoming a member of the APC.

According to the camp of the APC governorship candidate, Dr Jamilu Isiyaku Gwamna, the defections of the important thing PDP figures is an enormous blow for Pantami.

They stated, the defectors managed the PDP’s grassroots construction — ward mobilisation, polling unit coordination and native marketing campaign logistics in Yamaltu-Deba, Kwami, and Nafada.

“Usman because the Chairman of the Pantami Contact Committee, he was a central determine within the political coordination and mobilisation surrounding Pantami’s candidacy.

“Beyond their particular person weight, the departures might weaken the PDP’s native authorities coordination and mobilisation capability, whereas giving the APC a possibility to deepen its attain throughout the state.

“The development further reinforces the APC’s positioning under Governor Inuwa Yahaya, whose administration and political leadership continue to anchor the party’s campaign ahead of the 2027 general elections”, they stated.

The defections was coming at a time Pantami, Senator Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, a former governor, had been getting ready to go to the state following Pantami’s reinstatement on the INEC’s checklist of candidates.

Blueprint.ng correspondent studies that the go to is anticipated to characteristic the inauguration of the PDP marketing campaign council.