PDP Governorship aspirant defects to NNPP

The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) governorship candidate in the 2019 general elections in Kano State, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has renounced his membership of the PDP.

In a brief ceremony held at his ward in Disu, Gwale Local Government Area of the state on Sunday, the former flag bearer of the opposition party in the state declared his loyalty to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).

Abba, a political godson to former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, becomes the highlight of the Kwankwasiyya Movement to defect to the NNPP officially. Kwankwaso recently reinvigorated this party.

It’s Official:
His Excellency Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, a PDP Gubernatorial Candidate in the 2019 elections, has formally defected from PDP to NNPP today Sunday 27/03/2022 at his ward office, Diso ward of Gwale local government in Kano State. pic.twitter.com/X7UXb1NWTZ

— Kwankwasiyya Reporters (@KKSY_Reporters) March 27, 2022

GOVERNORSHIP ASPIRANT’S REASON 

Speaking at the political event, Abba, who almost truncated the second-term ambition of the incumbent governor of the state, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, held that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had failed the people of the state and Nigerians.

He equally argued that there was no difference between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), the reason he resolved to exit to a new party.

He also insisted that the yearnings of the people of the state, who wished for a new platform that would guarantee them the benefits of democracy, largely predicated his defection.

THE STATE OF THE KWANKWASSIYYA MOVEMENT 

Further reports show that the once hegemonic Kwankwassiyya Movement members have since dispersed in three directions.

Also, the loyalists of former Governor Kwankwaso occupying executive positions in the PDP at the ward, along with those at the local government and the state levels, were directed to remain in the party while caucus members, including holders of non-executive positions, could defect to the new party.

Meanwhile, a faction of the Movement, not satisfied with Kwankwaso’s recent exploits, such as the former Commissioner of Land in the state, Yusuf Dambatta, former Chief of Staff, Yanusa Adamu Dangoni, and several others have since aligned with the mainstream PDP in the state led by Ambassador Aminu Wali.

COV/E/Suzan O.