The leader of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has sent a delegation to the Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, over his planned defection to the party.
The development came hours after Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State stormed the house of Shekarau to stop him from joining NNPP.
Kwankwaso, who had hoped to welcome Shekarau into NNPP on Saturday, heard of Ganduje’s move and called the Mundubawa Kano house of Shekarau, informing them he was coming.
While the agenda is not yet known, sources said it could be to confirm if Shekarau was still in tune with the imminent defection to NNPP.
Sources said while Kwankwaso was still being expected, his advance party, which include new members of NNPP, Alhassan Rurum and Kawu Sumaila, were at a meeting with Shekarau at the time of filing this report.
According to Daily Trust, after Ganduje visited Shekarau, the presidency decided to step into the crisis and dispatched a jet to Kano to convey the two gladiators in Kano APC for a final reconciliation meeting in Abuja.
Sources said both Ganduje and Shekarau are expected to jet out of Kano later in the night for the Abuja meeting.