No fewer than 1,331 members of the All Progressive Congress ( APC) believed to be loyalists of the
National Chairman of APC,Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje defected to the ruling New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) at home town in Kano.
However,the decampees who are mainly from 11 wards of Ganduje’s Dawakin-Tofa local government area of Kano state vowed to work against the return of APC in Kano.
While receiving the decampees,the
former APC leaders now embrace NNPP include former Vice Chairman, Dawakin-Tofa local government area, Malam Isyaku Dahiru Kwa; former state House of assembly aspirant, Hon. Audu Magaji Tumfafi; Bashir Musa Sani, APC Youth Leader for Takai Organization among others.
The state chairman of NNPP, Hon. Hashim U Dungurawa,when receiving them back to the ruling party, at a ground reception held at Dawakin-Tofa, applauded the ingenuity of the Ganduje’s kinsmen to APC.
However, earlier,one of the leader of the decampees Isyaku Dahiru Kwa alleged total neglect of Ganduje’s inability to develop Dawakin-Tofa local government area during his eight years tenure as major reason for their decision.
Kwa also claim that former Governor’s leadership deficit to manage the affairs of the party at the national level and his alleged involvement in anti-party during the 2023 general elections where his son, Umar Abdullahi Ganduje failed to clinch the house of representatives victory.
Dungurawa declared that NNPP under the spiritual leadership of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is committed to entrench socio-econonic and infrastructural development in Kano.
While assuring the newest members of NNPP equal opportunity within the party caucus, Dungurawa dispelled rumour of mass defection of NNPP members to APC.
He emphasized that NNPP is not losing grip of control of its party structure across the political wards, describing those aligning with APC as 419 struggling to collect their national cake from their recruiters.
He disclosed that ” We learn one APC man has been receiving members of NNPP into APC. Let me remind the Abuja man that we have checked the roll call of our members and we have not noticed any reduction in the volume of our numerical strength.
” Perhaps, I need to advise the Abuja APC man to shine his eye and beware of 419 people coming to collect the public fund in his disposal in the name of decampees. In any ways, we would not blame anyone claiming to have decamped from NNPP to APC simple to collect his own share from the disposable income”. Dungurawa clarified.
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