Defection: PDP appoints caretaker c’ttees for Kwara, Sokoto

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has moved to fill up the space left by the defection of Governors Abdulfatah Ahmed and Aliyu Wamakko in Kwara and Sokoto States with the appointment of caretaker committees for the two states.
The two governors, who left the PDP last month after months of agitation against the Bamanga Tukur-led leadership, left the party carrying the entire state executives in the two states.
It emerged, yesterday, that the National Working Committee, NWC, had appointed 14-member caretaker committees to superintend the affairs of the party in the two states.
The announcement was made by the National Organising Secretary of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Mustafa.
A former member of the House of Representatives from Delta State, Hon. Solomon Edojah, is the chairman of the committee appointed for Kwara State which has Alhaji Jubril Bala Jos as Secretary.
The committee for Sokoto has Hon Abba Anas Adamu as chairman while Alhaji Ahmadu Suleiman is to serve as Secretary.
Mustafa in an annoucnemnt, yesterday, said the two committees would be inaugurated by the national chairman tomorrow at the national secretariat of the party.
The move by the party is believed to be part of the preparations of putting the party in sound footing ahead of the next round of general elections.
Kwara and Sokoto States were the only two states affected by the defection of the five governors that were yet to have their party structures altered.
While the party, last month, inaugurated a new executive for Kano State, it had earlier sided with party factions against the governors of Adamawa and Rivers States, sparking the revolt of the two governors.