The Sensor representing Southern Senatorial district, Mr Sunday Marshall Katung will on Saturday, November 1, 2025, formally defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP.
The official defection will sign the top of 25 years of the zone’s loyalty to the primary opposition get together within the space.
DAILY POST gathered that Katung’s resolution adopted weeks of intensive consultations with key APC figures in Kaduna and Abuja, together with Governor Uba Sani and members of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s interior circle.
It’s now not about get together labels however aligning with the brand new political actuality in Kaduna State, analysts say.
Barely about two weeks in the past, the Senator had dismissed stories of his defection as mere hypothesis, insisting that he remained a dedicated PDP member, whereas his media workplace on the time urged the general public to ignore “unfounded rumours” and described them as distractions from his legislative duties.
A supply advised DAILY POST that Southern Kaduna can now not afford to stay in opposition whereas improvement alternatives go it by, saying that since Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999, all senators from Kaduna South have emerged underneath the PDP because the area had lengthy been considered the “Southern pillar” of PDP’s power in Kaduna State.
