A former Commissioner for Rural and Community Development in Kano State, Abba Sani Abbas, has dumped the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
Naija News reports Abbas, who was recently sacked along with five other commissioners by the State Governor, Abba Yusuf, has now joined the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He was welcomed into the APC by the Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin.
During the welcoming ceremony, according to a video released by the media office of the Deputy President of the Senate, Abbas also symbolically dropped the red cap which is a symbol of the Kwankwasiyya movement and exchanged it for another cap.
In other news coming from Kano State, the 16th Emir of Kano, Lamido Muhammad Sanusi II, has appealed to the people of the state to remain peaceful after the Court of Appeal’s judgment that the Federal High Court lacked jurisdiction over the emirate dispute.
Naija News reported that a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, presided over by Justice Muhammad Mustapha, had on Friday, January 10, 2025, ordered the Chief Judge of Kano to assign a fresh judge to review the case between the 15th Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, the Kano State Government, and the 16th Emir, Muhammad Sanusi II, as well as the Kano State Assembly.
The Court further stated that the Federal High Court in Kano had no jurisdiction to try the monarchy case as it should be under the state High Court.
Reacting to the Court’s judgment on Friday after prayers at his palace in Kano City, Emir Sanusi commended the verdict and urged the people of the state to remain patient and prayerful.
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