Ganduje’s Chief of Staff resigns, joins NNPP as Shekarau shuns Kano APC reconciliation

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje is facing a difficult time as many top political office holders in his administration and leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress are resigning and dumping the party for the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).

Ganduje’s Chief of staff, Mr Ali Makoda, is leading other APC leaders in the state including two serving local government chairman, two lawmakers, an APC auditor, youth leader out of the party and moving to the NNPP.

The gale of defection has continued to wreak havoc on the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, with Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s current chief of staff, leading other notable politicians in Kano North to dump the party.

Makoda confirmed his defection to Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso’s NNPP.

This is comig as Senator Ibrahim Shekarau has reportedly shunned an invitation to resolve the crisis between him and Ganduje.

A private jet was dispatched to Kano to take Ganduje and Shekarau to Abuja so as to finally reconcile the two and stop the planned defection of Shekarau to the NNPP.

Shekarau was said to be planning to depart his Mudunbawa Kano residence for the airport in the midnight before he got the information that it was not President Muhammadu Buhari or the presidency that called for the meeting.

The meeting, according to sources, was discovered to be organised by the National Chairman of APC, Abdullahi Adamu, and some APC governors.

It was also gathered that the national leader of the NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, as well as other former bigwigs of the APC who joined NNPP on Friday including a former speaker of the state assembly and current federal lawmaker, Alhassan Rurum, with a former aide to President Muhammad Buhari on legislative affairs, Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila, stormed Shekarau’s residence after Ganduje’s visit and exerted commitment from him that he would not renege on his planned defection.