By By Promise Eze
The Labour Party in Kano state has received a big blow as the state governorship candidate of the party, Bashir Bashir, on Sunday evening pitched his tent with the ruling All Progressives Congress.
Recall that Bashir, alongside LP chieftains in Kano, on January 21 shunned the party’s presidential rally held in Kano.
The other LP members who shunned the rally were Mohammed Zarewa; the state coordinator for Peter Obi’s campaign, Balarabe Wakili; and a member of the presidential campaign council, Idris Dambazau.
An associate of Bashir told TheCable under condition of anonymity, on Sunday night, that the major reason for the defection was the “exclusion of major northern stakeholders in the decision-making process of the party’s campaign”.
Punch Newspapers also noted that a source linked his decision to the party’s exclusion of major northern stakeholders in its decision-making process, and lack of clear-cut direction on the interest of northern Nigeria.
The development also comes days after Yusuf Tsoho, the LP governorship candidate in Jigawa, defected to the APC.
