Ex-Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the second term he would do so in eight years.
He communicated the decision in a letter addressed to the PDP chairman of Kwankwaso Ward in Madobi Local Government Area of Kano State.
According to him, he was resigning from the party over “some serious and irreconcilable differences.”
The letter, addressed to his ward chairman, reads: “It is with a deep sense of responsibility that I write to notify you that as a result of some serious and irreconcilable differences, I have reached the conclusion that my continued stay in the PDP is untenable.
“Therefore, from today, Tuesday March 29, 2022, I have withdrawn my membership from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).”
Premium Times reports that he had been having a running battle with the PDP over the leadership of the North-west zone of the party.
PDP had in April suspended the zonal congress in Kaduna after supporters of the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, clashed with those of Kwankwaso at the event.
They destroyed ballot boxes before voting could start, forcing observers and other officials to flee the scene.
The main subject of the dispute was the position of zonal National Vice Chairman.
Also, he is in dispute with a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aminu Wali, who leads a rival faction of the PDP in Kano. Both men presented candidates for the position of zonal vice-chairman.
He had announced his plan to join the New Nigerian People Party (NNPP) following which the Kano chapter of the party dissolved its executive committee and appointed Mr Kwankwaso’s ally as chairperson.
Kwankwaso had in November 2013 first left the PDP alongside the then governors Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto, Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa and Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers States. They joined the APC after staging a walk out from the PDP National Convention in Abuja.
He, however, in July 2018, rejoined the PDP alongside 14 APC senators and ran unsuccessfully for the PDP presidential ticket for the 2019 election.
The former governor is leaving the PDP with some of his allies, including the PDP governorship candidate in Kano in 2019, Abba Kabir, who earlier announced his resignation from the PDP and has since joined the NNPP.
Former Kano State Governor Musa Rabi’u Kwankwaso has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). There were speculations last night that he might join the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
In his letter of resignation from the main opposition, Kwankwaso cited “irreconcilable” differences as the reason for his departure from the PDP.
