Former Governor of Kano State Malam Ibrahim Shekarau has dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The 2011 presidential aspirant on the platform of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) left the PDP after the party leadership dissolved the Kano State Executive Council and set up a caretaker committee dominated by supporters of Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, who has just returned to the pary.
Shekarau has met with Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and was expected to meet with his supporters before formalising his return to the APC, four years after he left the party.
Shekarau yesterday left Abuja for Kano for consultations with his supporters and other stakeholders on his defection.
It was learnt that Shekarau and his supporters were unhappy that the PDP defied an order of the Federal High Court to dissolve the Kano Chapter of the party.
Also, out of the seven-man caretaker committee put in pace, Kwankwaso was allotted five sots and the remaining two were left for Shekarau and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs Amb. Aminu Wali.
The Special Adviser on Media to the former governor, Dr. Sule Yau Sule, said Shekarau would meet with stakeholders yesterday or today.
“After meeting with the stakeholders, he will announce his plans either to defect to APC or otherwise.”
Yau described how PDP treated the ex-governor as an act of injustice.
He added: “We obtained an order from the Federal High Court in Kano stopping the PDP from dissolving the legally elected PDP Executive Council in the state. The party disregarded the order and went ahead to put in place a seven-man caretaker committee.