Shekarau Defects To PDP After Three Months In NNPP

Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, a former governor of Kano State, has formally declared his switch from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

This occurs just three months after Shekarau left the All Progressives Congress for the NNPP.

At his Mundubawa residence in Kano on Monday, Shekarau made the announcement.

He was formally received into the PDP by the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the party’s national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, among other bigwigs.

Shekarau also said he had written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to announce his withdrawal from the senatorial race for Kano central under the NNPP.

Other PDP bigwigs in attendance include the party’s vice presidential candidate and Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; governors of Sokoto and Taraba, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and Darius Ishaku.

Others are former Vice President, Namadi Sambo, the chairman of the BOT of the party, former governors of Jigawa (Saminu Turaki and Sule Lamido), Sokoto (Attahiru Bafarawa), Kaduna (Ahmed Makarfi), Adamawa (Boni Haruna), among others.