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Sixteen local government chairmen and councillors in Kwara state have defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, Kwara State chapter, Joshua Omokanye, confirmed this news to reporters during a media briefing on the defection on Thursday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Famzn News had reported that the Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly and twenty-two out of the 24 members on Wednesday defected from the ruling APC to the PDP.
The Speaker of the Assembly, Dr. Ali Ahmad, who spoke on the floor of the House during the defection, said APC had been “fictionalised.”