Former governor of Kano State, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, on Monday formally defected from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The senator representing Kano Central was received into the PDP by the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and the national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, among other bigwigs.
This was coming barely three months after Shekarau left the All Progressives Congress for ‘a new home’ in Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s NNPP. His stay in NNPP was however short-lived on the grounds that the party failed to meet some of the agreements they reached before he defected.
Shekarau drew the line with the APC after he fell out with the incumbent Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, because of what he (Shekarau) described as ‘exclusion from the party activities.’
Before his defection from the APC, the leadership crisis in the party in Kano led to the formation of G7 – a faction of APC formed by some aggrieved lawmakers led by Shekarau.