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Reports have it that a former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party.
His spokesperson, Ya’u Sule, disclosed the defection in an interview with the BBC Hausa on Tuesday.
Sule did not disclose the new party his principal is moving to, but there are already indications Shekarau may return to the All Progressives Congress (APC), a party he helped form in the build up to the 2015 election.
Mr Sule said the decision of the former governor is connected with the recent dissolution of party executives in the state.
Recall that last week Thursday, the National Working Committee of the PDP dissolved the Kano State Executive Committee of the party and constituted a caretaker committee to pilot its affairs.
The PDP did not give reasons for the dissolution, but it is believed to be connected to the recent defection of another ex-Kano governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to the party. Shekarau’s supporters had protested against the move.
Sule descrived the party’s decision as injustice, saying: “Kano PDP is not the only state that received APC decampees. In Sokoto State, Governor Tambuwal’s defection doesn’t affect the structure of the party in the state, why Kano? We won’t take that.
“Those executives were legally elected to serve four year tenure, they’re in their second year, scrapping them is illegal,” he said
The spokesman said Mr Shekarau will consult his supporters while also deciding the political party to join.
Mr Shekarau was a founding member of the APC, but left the party for the PDP after Mr Kwankwaso, then Kano State governor, defected to the APC from the PDP and was given the APC structure in the state.