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No fewer than nine members of the Kano State house of Assembly have dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the New Nigeria Peoples Party(NNPP).
The defection occurred a few weeks after former state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso dumped the PDP for the NNPP.
The lawmakers were loyalists of Kwankwaso and members of the Kwankwasiyya movement.
The lawmakers that defected are; Rt Hon. Isyaku Ali Danja; Hon Lawan Hussain Chediyar ‘Yan Gurasa, Hon. Umar Musa Gama, Hon Aminu Sa’adu Ungogo, Hon. Tukur Muhammad, Hon. Mu’azzam El-Yakub, Dawakin Kudu Constituency and Hon. Garba Shehu Fammar.
Others include Hon. Abubakar Uba Galadima and Hon Mudassir Ibrahim Zawaciki.
The members disclosed that they had to leave the PDP over the numerous crisis rocking the party at state and national levels.
