Aminu Masari of Katsina State has described the recent defection of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as an exercise in futility. Masari made the statement in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiadua, Katsina State on Monday. He said the defection of the former vice president would not in anyway affect the electoral success of the ruling APC, stressing that Atiku had just answered his popular name. He said his administration had, in the last two years, constructed many roads, schools, hospitals and intensified efforts on security in the state. Masari was in Maiadua Local Government Area to receive the former speaker of the state, Alhaji Yau GojoGojo, who defected to APC from the PDP.

Source: Punch December 25, 2017 18:46 UTC