Nine lawmakers in the Kano State House of Assembly have dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the New Nigeria People’s Party.
The Public Relations Officer of the Assembly, Uba Abdullahi, who announced the defection of the lawmakers in a statement on Friday said the lawmakers had sent a letter to the Speaker of the State Assembly notifying the House of their defection.
Accordinng to Abdullahi, some of the reasons given by the lawmakers bordered on leadership tussle in the PDP both at state and national levels.
The defected members 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).
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that a PDP leader in the state and former governor Rabiu Kwankwanso had earlier joined the NNPP to fulfill his presidential ambition.
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