BREAKING: Buhari’s nephew, a Rep member, dumps APC for PDP

“Fatuhu and Buhari look so much alike, people used to think he was Buhari’s biological son. And Buhari actually did take him as his son.“

By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor 

The lawmaker representing Daura, Sandamu and Mai’adua federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Fatuhu Muhammed, has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Fatuhu is the nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari, and also the lawmaker representing the president’s federal constituency in the House of Representatives. 

Recall that the senator representing Katsina north senatorial district, which is Buhari’s senatorial district, Senator Ahmed Babba Kaita, had earlier resigned his membership of the APC and joined the PDP.

Fatuhu, in a letter addressed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, did not give any reasons for his resignation from the APC. But his resignation from the APC and defection to the PDP, may not be unconnected to his failure to clinch a return ticket during the party’s primaries. 

A tweet by professor of journalism at Kennesaw State University, Farouk Kperogi, explained that Fatuhu’s relationship with Buhari is that of father and son. 

He said: “Buhari’s nephew (the son of his older brother of the same father and mother) by the name of Fatuhu Muhammed who represents Daura, Sandamu & Mai’adua in the HoR has left APC for PDP. When Fatuhu’s father, Muhammad “Mamman” Danbafale, died in a car crash, Buhari became his father.

“Because Fatuhu and Buhari look so much alike, people used to think he was Buhari’s biological son. And Buhari actually did take him as his son–until his one and only biological son, Yusuf, was born.But I doubt if Fatuhu’s move gives any indication of Buhari’s political direction.”