Katsina Agog for Atiku

Katsina, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, was filled with intense excitement and eagerness to show support for the PDP on Tuesday as a huge crowd stormed the PDP’s mega rally for the presidential aspiration of Atiku Abubakar in Katsina.

The event dubbed as a “people’s endorsement” by some very triumphant PDP Presidential Campaign Council Members, also saw the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling party, lose over 91,000 members of the party, to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Katsina state.

The defectors led by the former Secretary to the Katsina State Government, Dr Mustapha Muhammad Inuwa, and Alhaji Aminu Lawal Maye were received by the PDP chieftains during the campaign rally at the Muhammadu Dikko Stadium attended by Atiku Abubakar the PDP presidential candidate.

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The stadium, the venue of the rally was jam-packed and the streets of Katsina were filled with pro-Atiku chants and symbols as thousands of PDP supporters welcomed the former Vice President to Katsina.

PDP presidential campaign spokesperson, Senator Dino Melaye said the former APC members are from all the senatorial districts of Katsina.

Many other PDP chieftains triumphally declared that there was no doubt that Katsina and the whole of the North West were for the Atiku Okowa ticket.

In a separate chat, Anthony Kila, a renowned prof of strategy and development and distinguished analyst of Nigerian affairs commented that PDP members were ecstatic about the Katsina event because they had gotten proof that the emotional Buhari vote was not going to be transferred to Tinubu and Shettima.

According to the CIAPS don, “for over 14 years, Muhammadu Buhari has had a huge emotional and charismatic reservoir of the vote that could easily determine the trajectory of the 2023 elections, these recent events in Katsina are for PDP leaders proof that such vote is not automatically going to the APC ticket”.

When asked about the possible impact of the over 91,000 defectors, Kila quipped that “in an election season no one wants to lose 91 votes let alone 91,000 party members”.