New Nigerian Peoples Party, in Kano State, on Monday, expressed dismay at the defection of Governor Abba Yusuf into the All Progressives Congress.
State’s NNPP spokesman, Ibrahim Karaye, who stated this in an interview on ‘Politics Today’ on Channels Television, said the NNPP felt devastated and betrayed.
Governor Yusuf officially rejoined the APC on Monday after resigning from the NNPP on Friday.
Karaye, who conveyed Kano NNPP’s reaction to the development, said, “We are really devastated. We feel betrayed, and we are not happy with the development, but
NNPP is still stronger and is still the party to be here in Kano, because right from the moment the governor was planning to leave the party, all the major stakeholders are aware of his actions.
“But, in politics, you cannot just take a decision without the other party taking its own decision. He has not done anything. So, we waited for him until last Friday, when he resigned from our party.
“And after his resignation from the party, we expected him to go to a more progressive, more sophisticated party, because part of the reasons he gave why he left NNPP is that there are internal crisis.
“I can tell you that there is no any political party in Nigeria that doesn’t have internal crisis. Even here in Kano, the APC that he has joined, they have so many crisis, they have so many issues, but it’s politics.”
