By Henry Umoru
THE Nationwide Working Committee, NWC of the New Nigeria Peoples Social gathering, NNPP, takes a swipe at Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State following his resignation from the occasion, describing the motion as a chilly betrayal of a sacred belief.
The Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the occasion, Ladipo Johnson, calls Yusuf’s assertion of an irredeemable disaster within the occasion as baseless and an afterthought.
Recall that Yusuf had penultimated Friday resigned from the NNPP and final week joined the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature, introduced the event in an announcement.
Bature stated his principal, in a letter addressed to the NNPP chairperson of Diso-Chiranchi Ward, Gwale Native Authorities Space, formally communicated his resolution to withdraw from the occasion, efficient January 23, 2026.
“I write with a deep sense of gratitude to formally notify the management of the New Nigeria Folks’s Social gathering (NNPP) of my resolution to resign my membership of the occasion, with impact from Friday, twenty third, January 20263 , he quoted Yusuf as saying.
The NNPP spokesperson, in a response, stated, “It’s with profound anguish and deep disappointment that we acquired the information of the resignation and defection of His Excellency, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, from the New Nigeria Peoples Social gathering (NNPP).
“We deeply remorse that Governor Abba, a person entrusted by the individuals of Kano State on the energy of his many years of unwavering loyalty and devoted service to the Kwankwasiyya Motion, has now chosen to betray that sacred belief. By this motion, he dangers returning the state to the very forces which have lengthy opposed its progress and the aspirations of its individuals.
“It’s noteworthy that our occasion, the NNPP had just lately performed congresses for its management from the ward to the nationwide conference, held on twentieth December 2025, which the governor himself was current, and INEC had supervised. The occasion had additionally participated and gained in two supplementary elections for Bagwai/Shanono and Ghari/Tsanyawa constituency, respectively held in August 2025, about three months in the past. The assertion he made from an irredeemable disaster within the occasion is subsequently baseless and an afterthought.
“This isn’t the primary time such a betrayal has occurred within the political historical past of Kano. Within the early Eighties, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi defected from the Folks’s Redemption Social gathering (PRP) to the Nigerian Folks’s Social gathering (NPP), taking with him the overwhelming majority of elected officers—together with practically all native authorities chairmen and councillors, 120 out of 126 members of the Kano State Home of Meeting, and most Kano representatives within the Nationwide Meeting.
“But, the voters delivered a convincing verdict: Within the 1983 gubernatorial election, Rimi was humiliatingly defeated by Mallam Aliyu Sabo Bakin Zuwo of the PRP, ending second. Much more telling, of the 120 state meeting members who joined Rimi’s defection, just one was re-elected— an consequence that ought to function a sobering lesson to any politician considering the trail of disloyalty.
“Whereas this growth is deeply disturbing and painful for all who’ve invested within the Kwankwasiyya imaginative and prescient, we urge the 1,019,602 folks that solid their votes for his election, in addition to the great individuals of Kano State and Nigeria to stay calm, affected person, and restrained. Allow us to not descend into acrimony or division.
“Historical past has constantly proven that those that commerce loyalty for expediency, and honour for deceit, hardly ever escape the judgment of the individuals. The reality endures, and the loyalty of Kano’s lots to principled management will finally prevail.”
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