Just two weeks before the presidential election, Alhassan Bawu, a director of the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential campaign council in Bauchi State, left the organization.
Bawu switched parties and joined the PDP.
Bawu explained his choice by saying he joined the PDP to support Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate.
He claimed that all of the LP’s Northeast leaders had switched to the PDP when speaking with the media in Bauchi on Tuesday.
He said that the defectors thought Atiku was capable of leading Nigeria.
According to Bawu, the LP’s decision to defect to the PDP was caused by a lack of organization at the ward, local, and state levels.
He said: “We believe the LP is not strong enough to win a single seat in the North-East.
“We are officially declaring that all the North-East executives of Labour Party are defecting to PDP to support Atiku.
“We don’t want to waste our votes, and we want to use this time to mobilise votes to who has the capacity to win the election.”