Ibrahim Shekarau, a former governor of Kano State, justified his choice to leave the New Nigeria Peoples Party and join the Peoples Democratic Party in advance of the 2023 elections on Thursday, September 01, 2022.
Shekarau criticised people who said that his five-year transition from the All Progressives Congress to the NNPP and now to the PDP was an example of political indiscipline in remarks made on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“Ask any typical man in Kano; if it was something selfish or for personal benefits, the people would not have been coming along with us,” Shekarau added. “If it had been in my character to accomplish all that because of my own interests.”
“Anytime we leave, we have a structure from the unit to the ward to the local government, to the state.
“Our politics has been a politics of consultation, very wide consultation. There was no decision that I have taken politically without taking a referendum across the states.”
Shekarau claimed he joined the PDP not because he had been promised a political post but rather because it was a pluralistic organisation.
Additionally, he guaranteed that the PDP would take Kano state in the upcoming presidential elections.
He declared, “The people of Kano believe in us. “I can guarantee you that, by God’s grace, the PDP will win the majority, if not all, of the votes in Kano. because I am aware of what others desire.
