Yahaya Abdullahi will on Wednesday by 9 am leave Abuja for Kebbi and proceed to Kamba local government to formally declare for the PDP and to possibly indicate his interest to contest his present seat.
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and incumbent Senate leader, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
His special adviser on media and publicity Muhammad Jamil Gulma who confirmed the defection said, the “Senate Leader Dr Yahaya Abdullahi will on Wednesday by 9 am leave Abuja for Kebbi and proceed to Kamba local government to formally declare for PDP and to possibly indicate his interest to contest his present seat.”
Dr Yahaya Abdullahi who participated in the APC’s Kebbi governorship primaries was reported to have scored Zero vote, an outcome which he had since rejected and described as shambolic and child’s play.
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Pundits say his defection may not be unconnected with the governorship primaries and several failed truces by the national leadership of the ruling APC.
About Yahaya Abdullahi
Yahaya Abdullahi was born on December 10, 1950.
He was born in Argungu, in the present Kebbi State of Nigeria. He is the Senator representing Kebbi North Senatorial District of Kebbi State at the 9th National Assembly. Until his defection to the PDP, he is Senate Majority Leader of the Nigerian 9th National Assembly.
He began his early education at the Dankoji Primary School, Argungu, from 1959 to 1964; after which he attended the Nagarta College, Sokoto, from 1965 to 1969.[5]
Yahaya Abdullahi attended the School of Basic Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, from 1970 to 1971 and continued in the same university to obtain a Bachelor of Science degree in social sciences, and a Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D, in rural sociology from 1976 to 1983. Abdullahi also holds the Certificate of Development Oriented Research in Agriculture, ICRA, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1985.