Tag: Malam Ibrahim Shekarau and Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso

Atiku in Kano as Shekarau decamps to PDP

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Peoples’ Democratic Party’s Presidential flagbearer, Atiku Abubarkar, arrived at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, to receive defecting Kano Central Senator and former governor of the state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau and his supporters to the PDP. Among those at the airport were former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido; former Foreign Affairs Minister, Aminu Wali and national chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu. The development followed the decision of Shekarau to dump NNPP through which he was collaborating with a former governor of the state, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to prosecute the 2023…

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Kwankwaso, Shekarau resume political feud

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Political rivals and former governors of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Ibrahim Shekarau are about to return to the trenches once again as their much-talked-about political alliance is headed for the rocks. Some few months ago, Shekarau had decamped from the ruling All Progressives Party to join forces with his erstwhile political foe; Kwankwaso in his newly formed New Nigeria Peoples Party. The political union was the first between the two Kano gladiators but a festering crisis in the New Nigeria Peoples Party deepened on Monday with Ibrahim Shekarau,…

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2019: Atiku begins nationwide tour, set mega declaration for July 21st

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Former vice-president and leading presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will be commencing a consultation and familiarization tour across the country beginning from July 16, 2018 ahead of the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The former number two citizen will begin with a scheduled visit to Gombe State on Monday then proceed to Borno State on Tuesday, Taraba on Wednesday and Adamawa on Thursday. According to a schedule released by the the Director-General of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation and former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel,…

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