APC move: Gov Yusuf secures backing of Kano lawmakers, other stakeholders

Indications have emerged that Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has secured the backing of a majority of elected officials, party executives and influential support groups in the state ahead of his planned defection from the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Sources disclosed that the development followed weeks of consultations across Kano’s political landscape and signals a major rupture in the long-standing political alliance between Yusuf and his mentor, former governor and NNPP national leader, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.

Kwankwaso, who has openly opposed the governor’s planned move, has reportedly opened a “loyalty register” at his Miller Road residence in Kano to…