No fewer than 27,000 registered members of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party in Nasarawa have declared their support for the Labour Party ahead of the 2023 elections.
The State Chairman of the Labour Party, Alexander Emmanuel, disclosed this on Saturday while inaugurating a new LP office donated to the party by youth and women groups in Agyaragu community, Obi Local Government Area of the State.
According to him, the 27,000 defectors from the APC and PDP were in addition to the party’s one million supporters drawn from 56 support groups across the 13 LGAs of the state.
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“These 27,000 defectors are those who indicated interest to join our party within the last two weeks.
“It was after the one-million-man march that was held in Lafia LGA for our presidential candidate, Peter Obi, that they came to declare support for our party and preparation is on top gear to receive them by the first week of September,” he said.