National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje yesterday lost 1,331 members to the ruling New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) in Kano.
The decampees from 11 wards of Ganduje Dawakin-Tofa local government area of Kano state vowed to work against the return of APC in Kano.
Prominent among the former APC leaders who embraced 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.
Receiving the decampees at a ground reception held at Dawakin-Tofa, State Chairman of NNPP, Hon. Hashimu Dungurawa applauded the ingenuity of the Ganduje’s kinsmen to APC.
Earlier, one of the leaders of the decampees Isyaku Dahiru kwa alleged total neglect and Ganduje’s inability to develop Dawakin-Tofa local government area during his eight years tenure.
Kwa also claimed that the former Governor’s leadership deficit to manage the affairs of the party at the national level and his alleged involvement in anti-party activities during the 2023 general elections where his son, Umar Abdullahi Ganduje failed to clinch the house of representatives position.
He said NNPP under the leadership of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is committed to promote socio-economic and infrastructural development in Kano.
While assuring the new members of NNPP equal opportunity within the party caucus, Dungurawa dispelled rumour of mass defection of NNPP members to APC.
He maintained 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.
According to Dungurawa, “ 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”.