A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano has dumped the party for the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
The statement said the decampees were received by NNPP National Chairman Rufai Alkali, and the partys vice-presidential candidate, Isaac Idahosa, at a ceremony in Kano.
PDP factional leader, Shehu Sagagi, claimed that they dumped the party due to a lack of internal democracy and nepotism by its national leadership, added the statement added.
Sagagi stressed that he defected alongside 36 State executive members, over 700 local government executives, 8,000 ward executives, 44 national delegates and 1,452 ward delegates.
Sagagi explained that, Politics is a game of numbers. We are optimistic that the NNPP presidential candidate, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, will take us to victory at both the national and state level.
“The PDP sabotaged itself in states like Kano by allowing the likes of Senator Kwankwaso to defect in spite of his massive followership not only in the state but the nation at large”.
To us, this is a homecoming, we are real politicians, and we have joined a political party that plays real politics. I am happy to rejoin Senator Kwankwaso once again a year after our departure, he added.
