Ibrahim Shekarau, a former governor of Kano State, has declared he is leaving the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP).
According to him, the reason he left the NNPP was because his supporters couldn't get nomination papers to further their political aspirations within the organisation.
Shekarau left the All Progressives Congress (APC) to join the NNPP and is currently the senatorial representative for Kano Central.
“I am done with NNPP”, Shekarau told a crowd of supporters yesterday at the Kano Foundation Office, on BUK Road.
Shekarau did not, however, reveal his upcoming political move, but the APC's camp was ecstatic anyway.
Shekarau might rejoin the APC, according to a source.
Shekarau charged Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the founder of the NNPP and his predecessor at the Kano Government House, with "betraying and humiliating" him.
Speaking about what happened between him and Kwankwaso during his brief tenure in the NNPP, Shekarau expressed shock at being the only person to receive a form to run for senator without taking in his throngs of followers.
He said: “On May 5, 2022, long before I joined Kwankwaso in the NNPP, I personally met him at his country home and discussed extensively my decisions to follow him to his new party and he expressed deep happiness.
“And on May 11, 2022, I still met with Kwankwaso, because since our last meeting we were not able to meet, and I reminded him of a proposal I submitted to him during our last meeting.
“The proposal was the list of my supporters who were seeking different political offices, and when I talked to Kwankwaso about it he said he was aware of it and definitely something would be done
“Similarly, on May 16, 2022, Kwankwaso came to my house at about 9pm and we still discussed extensively the same issues. He even called five people including Abba Kabir, Kawu Sumaila, Alhassan Rirum and two others and presented them to me as those to make the lists of contestants.
“During the meeting which led to my decamping, Kwankwaso came with my senatorial form alone and sneaked it to me telling me that I was the first to receive it.
“Then I asked him about the forms for my supporters, and he said it would be done.
“Since then Kwankwaso has kept deceiving me. Too much later, only for him to say we are late for my supporters to be on the list and there was nothing he could do.
“With all these and many more lies from Kwankwaso, I have no place in NNPP. This is because my party politics always goes with my supporters and any attempt to throw them away and separate them from me would be vehemently rejected.”