The Kano State House of Assembly has declared its support for the planned defection of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf from the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday on behalf of his colleagues, the Majority Leader of the House, Lawan Hussaini, justified the defection plan saying the unresolved leadership crises and ongoing court cases bedevilling the NNPP could jeopardise the governor’s mandate and that of others elected on the platform of the party.
Hussaini in his presentation said those currently elected on the platform of the NNPP may suffer similar fates like their APC counterparts in Zamfara State in 2019 where the party lost all the seats it won including the governorship to the Peoples Democratic Party when the Supreme Court ruled that APC had no valid candidates due to crisis rocking the party.
“There is an existing court judgement that recognises a particular faction of the NNPP. We cannot continue to remain in the party and risk a repeat of the legal disaster that happened in Zamfara State,” he told the newsmen.
The situation in NNPP he stated made the Assembly to entreat the governor and the leader of the Kwankwasiyya movement, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, to dump the party for a more politically stable platform, including the All Progressives Congress (APC).
