Nigeria: Kugama's Exco Abandons Nyako, Says We Are Still in PDP

4 December 2013

The Alhaji Mijinyawa Kugama-led executive of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyal to Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State has refused to follow the governor to register with the All Progressives Congress (APC), stressing that they are still in PDP to fight the injustice going on in the party.

Kugama, while responding to the agitations of the Chief Joel Madaki-led faction of the PDP in the state asking Nyako and his supporters, who recently defected to APC to handover the secretariat paraphernalia to its leadership yesterday, said they were legally elected into their offices on March 17, 2012 and were still members of the PDP.

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