Atiku, Fintiri receive mass defectors to PDP.

On Monday, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar received a score of decampees who joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State.

The former vice president received the decampees, who are primarily members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) alongside Governor Ahmadu Fintiri at the Ahmadu Ribadu Square in Jimeta, Yola.

Among the defectors were Two members of the Adamawa state House of Assembly, representing Mubi north and Furfore local government of Adamawa

Atiku welcomed the newcomers to the PDP while assuring that the party would provide an enabling environment for them all.

He assured them that PDP would recapture the presidency in 2023, noting that APC has failed Nigerians by entrenching poverty and other pains in the land.

On his part, Governor Fintiri also assured the new members that PDP would accord them all the privileges that old members enjoyed.