The state Deputy Governor, Alhaji Manniru Dan’iya, who was rumoured to have left the PDP, was however not among those who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The deputy governor had earlier in a statement by his media aide, Aminu Abubakar, dismissed the claim of his leaving the PDP, as false.
The defectors were received by the APC National Chairman, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu.