By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The rank of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, on Friday, May 9, 2025, continued to deplete.
The Party has lost another big fish in a former Governor of Kebbi State, now a Senator, Adamu Aliero.
Aliero, alongside two other Senators, Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi and Garba Maidoki, representing Kebbi Central, Kebbi North and Kebbi South respectively ,all signed off ,from the PDP, after a meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Villa.
They were led into the meeting with the President ,by the National Chairman of the APC, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
Before now, there had been a semblance of balance of power in the State between the two major political platforms, with the APC producing the Governor ,while PDP maintained a significant presence both at the State and National Assembly levels.
However, the defection of the three Senators is expected to alter considerably ,the influence of the PDP in the State.
More so, speculations are rife that other top PDP political office holders and chieftains are set to follow the footsteps of the defected Senators in the days ahead.
Other people present during the parley with the President were the Kebbi State Governor, Dr. Nasir Idris, his Sokoto State counterpart Ahmed Aliyu, as well as the Minister for Budget and Economic Planning Atiku Bagudu who is also from Kebbi State.
Instructively,the defection of the three PDP Senators will appear to be an anti-climax to several weeks of speculated resignation of the Kebbi state Governor from the APC.
Although details of the meeting with the President leading up to the defection were not made public, this Magazine gathered that the defecting Senators have been guaranteed automatic return tickets ahead of the 2027 general elections.
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