PDP candidate in Zamfara Assembly bye-election defects to APC

By Idris Salisu, Gusau

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaigner successful the precocious concluded Kaura Namoda South Constituency bye-election, Hon. Muhammad Lawal Kurya Madaro, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) successful Zamfara State.

The bye-election, held connected September 16, 2025, saw the APC unafraid a landslide triumph implicit the ruling PDP, a effect that galore observers described arsenic a large setback for the governing enactment successful the state.

Kurya, who was fielded by the PDP successful that election, was decisively defeated by the APC candidate. His defection, according to governmental observers, signals shifting governmental alliances up of the 2027 wide elections.

Speaking astatine a crowded lawsuit organized by the Hon. Yazid Shehu Danfulani Project astatine the Taula Event Centre, Gusau, Kurya said his determination to permission the PDP was motivated by the party’s “lack of absorption and interior coherence.”

“I realized that during the by-election, implicit 90 percent of the electorate, particularly the youth, are APC supporters contempt PDP being successful power. I tin nary longer stay successful a enactment that has mislaid interaction with the people,” Kurya stated.

He pledged to enactment with his supporters to fortify the APC successful Zamfara State and lend to its maturation nationally.

Receiving the defectors, the APC State Publicity Secretary, Hon. Yusuf Idris Gusau, welcomed Kurya and his followers into the party, assuring them of adjacent attraction with existing members.

“The APC remains the enactment to bushed successful Zamfara. We volition proceed to run arsenic 1 agreed family, treating each members reasonably and without discrimination,” Yusuf said.

He praised the enactment qualities of erstwhile governors Bello Mohammed Matawalle, present Minister of State for Defence, and Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, present a senator, describing them arsenic the pillars of APC’s increasing spot successful the state.

Yusuf expressed optimism that the APC would reclaim Zamfara successful the 2027 elections, citing the expanding acceptance of the enactment crossed the state.

He besides disclosed that respective different PDP leaders are acceptable to articulation the APC soon, noting that arrangements are already underway for their ceremonial reception.

The defection lawsuit was witnessed by salient APC figures, including the State Welfare Secretary, Hon. Bashir Idris Ataka, his lawman Alhaji Shehu J. Muhammad, Special Adviser to the Minister of State for Defence Hon. Ibrahim Maigandi Danmalikin Gidan Goga, and the convener of the Yazid Shehu Danfulani Project, Mallam Abubakar Sadiq, among others.

The station PDP campaigner successful Zamfara Assembly bye-election defects to APC appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.