- Says APC chairman didn’t follow protocol in making request
- Ruling party to commence E-registration
THE NATION
Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has said that he has no plans to dump the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), on whose platform he won the governorship polls.
Yusuf disclosed this on Friday while responding to an invite by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to join the APC.
Yusuf, whose election was affirmed by the Supreme Court penultimate week, is the only NNPP governor in Nigeria.
But on Thursday, Ganduje wooed Yusuf and his godfather Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso as well as Ibrahim Shekarau of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), asking them to join APC, according to him, in the interest of Nigerians and the country.
During the party’s stakeholders’ meeting in Kano, Ganduje said: “I am appealing to Governor Yusuf, along with his members from the NNPP, to defect to the ruling APC at the national level to ensure massive political growth of the state.
“We are working very hard to ensure more members of the National Assembly from Kano State and others from other political parties join hands with the progressives as doors of the party remain open to all.”
According to Ganduje, the APC would commence e-registration and the target is to get the highest number of members from the state and also have a one-party state.
He added: “We will provide an enabling environment for all defectors for the overall political growth of our party and state,” disclosing that “some opposition governors and National Assembly members will soon join the ruling party.”
