Over 1,500 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Radda town, Charanchi Local Government Area of Katsina State, on Friday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The defectors moved to the PDP with their leader, Alhaji Mustapha Radda, APC youth mobilisation officer in the state from 2010 to 2016.
Receiving the defectors, the PDP state chairman, Alhaji Salisu Majigiri, said the party had constituted reception committee to receive defectors to the party.
"The committee is mandated to receive all the people who defected to our party from other parties.
"We shall treat all those who defected to our party equally without any form of discrimination.
"Just this week, we received Alhaji Umar Tata APGA governorship candidate in the 2015 election to our party together with his supporters.
"We are ready to provide level playing ground to old and new members during future elections and there will be no imposition of candidates this time around," Majigiri said.
Credit: Haruna Tata