Ganduje loses loyalists to Kwakwanso as NNPP swells
Governor Abdullai Ganduje continues to see some of his loyalists defect to the newly formed New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP. Rabiu Kwakwanso, a former governor, whose deputy governor Ganduje was between 2019 and 2007, is the leader of the new party.
Prominent among defectors to NNPP are Ganduje’s chief of staff, Ali Makoda; Badamasi Ayuba, who currently represents Dambatta/Makoda Federal Constituency; Murtala Kore, a lawmaker in the state House of Assembly; Abdullahi Wango, a serving chairman of Dambatta Local Government Council.
Others are Ahmed Speaker, the State Auditor of APC; Najib Abdussalam, the zonal APC Youth Leader; Umar Maitsidau, former chairman of Makoda Local Government; Halliru Danga Maigari, former member of the House of Assembly representing Rimingado/Tofa and; Hafizu Sani Maidaji, former member of the state House of Assembly representing Dambatta Constituency.
Also among the defectors are Safiyanu Harbau, former member of the House of Representatives representing Tsanyawa/Kunchi Federal Constituency, Habiba Yandalla, immediate-past APC Women Leader, among other notable politicians.
TheCornet reports that the Peoples Democratic Party in the state has also lost some of its members to the new party.
They are Isyaku Ali Danja (Gezawa Constituency), Umar Musa Gama (Nassarawa Constituency), Aminu Sa’adu Ungogo (Ungogo Constituency), Lawan Hussain Chediyar ‘Yan Gurasa (Dala Constituency) and Tukur Muhammad (Fagge Constituency).
Others are Mu’azzam El-Yakub (Dawakin Kudu Constituency), Garba Shehu Fammar (Kibiya Constituency), Abubakar Uba Galadima (Bebeji Constituency) and Mudassir Ibrahim Zawaciki (Kumbotso Constituency).
In addition, a former speaker of the House of Assembly and serving member of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Rurum, decamped from APC to NNPP alongside a former adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly matters, Kawu Sumaila.
Two former speakers of the state House of Assembly, Gambo Sallau and Alhassan Abubakar Kibiya also defected from APC to NNPP.
On May 11, three APC lawmakers in the Kano State House of Assembly defected to NNPP. They are Abdullahi Iliyasu-Yaryasa, member representing Tudunwada Constituency; Muhammed Bello Butu-Butu, member representing Tofa/Rimin Gado Constituency and; Kabiru Yusuf Ismail, member representing Madobi Constituency.
On May 12, the deputy speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Zubairu Hamza Massu, and member representing Bagwai/Shanono in the Assembly, Ali Isa Shanono also joined the defection frenzy to NNPP.
Also joining the NNPP on Friday is Abdulmumin Jibrin, a campaigner of the APC presidential aspirant Bola Tinubu as well as the immediate-past Kano State commissioner for Budget Planning Nura Dankadai.
Source: DailyNigerian
