Nigeria, May 3 -- The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).

Governor Mohammed announced his exit from the PDP on Saturday following a meeting with his state's political stakeholders.

The gathering was convened to deliberate on the implications of the recent Supreme Court judgement on the PDP's leadership crisis and to determine a path forward.

Addressing journalists after the meeting, the governor explained that the Supreme Court's verdict-which nullified the parallel conventions conducted by rival factions-has fundamentally altered the nation's political landscape.

He noted that the judgement effectively stripped both factions of their legal...