Shekarau announced his exit from the NNPP last week, and rejoined the PDP, a party he quit in the build up to the 2015 election.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and other heavyweights, on Monday, received former Governor Ibrahim Shekarau back into the party.
Party big wigs present at the event include former Vice President, Namadi Sambo; Chairman BoT, Jibrin Walid; National Chairman, Iyiorchia Ayu, and Atiku’s running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa.
Other chieftains include the former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido; former Governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi among others.
TheNiche had reported that the less than three months alliance between the two former Kano State Governors – Shekarau and Rabiu Kwankwaso, collapsed last week.
Kwankwaso is the presidential flagbearer of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), while Shekarau was handed the senatorial slot. Shekarau supporters were however left out in the allocation of party tickets.
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Speaking on what transpired between him and Kwankwaso during his brief stay in NNPP, Shekarau stated he was given a form to contest the senatorial election, without absorbing his teeming supporters.
He said on May 5, 2022, long before he joined Kwankwaso in NNPP: “I personally met him at his country home and discussed extensively my decisions to follow him to his new party and he expressed deep happiness.
“And on May 11, 2022, I still met with Kwankwaso because since our last meeting we were not able to meet, and I reminded him of a proposal I submitted to him during our last meeting.
“The proposal was the list of my supporters who were seeking different political offices, and when I talked to Kwankwaso about it he said he was aware of it and definitely something would be done
“Similarly, on May 16, 2022, Kwankwaso came to my house at about 9pm and we still discussed extensively the same issues. He even called five people including Abba Kabir, Kawu Sumaila, Alhassan Rirum and two others and presented them to me as those to make the lists of contestants.
“During the meeting which led to my decamping, Kwankwaso came with my Senatorial form alone and sneaked it to me telling me that I was the first to receive it.
“Then I asked him about the forms for my supporters, and he said it would be done.
“Since then Kwankwaso has kept deceiving me. Too much later, only for him to say we are late for my supporters to be on the list and there was nothing he could do.
“With all these and many more lies from Kwankwaso, I have no place in NNPP. This is because my party politics always goes with my supporters and any attempt to throw them away and separate them from me would be vehemently rejected,” he said.
