By Suleiman Ahmed
Hundreds of people have started withdrawing from the Kano State chapter of the All Nigeria Peoples Party after last week’s resignation of their former presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari.
Some of the party members said their membership withdrawal was a mark of loyalty to Mr. Buhari.
“We decided to denounce our membership from the party because our mentor and hero quit the party,” one of them, Ahmadu Haruna Zago, said. “His withdrawal is a good omen to us because the party failed to carry along its members.” Mr Zago, who is the former chairman of the party in the state and close associate of Mr Buhari, said his supporters are celebrating Mr. Buhari’s exit from the party.
“General Buhari will join another party after consultation with his advisers and the well meaning Nigerians,” he said. “General Buhari’s supporters in Kano, which numbered in the millions, have unanimously withdrawn their membership from ANPP and will join any party that Buhari will join.”
He said politicians in Kano and other states who ‘betrayed Buhari’ will now have to run the party on their own, ‘because the era of camouflaging with Buhari’s name is over.”
The State chairman of the party, Sani Hashim Hotoro did not pick his calls when he was called to solicit his opinion on the matter.
Waiting on Buhari
Some of those who have left the party in sympathy with Mr. Buhari are former House of Representatives member from Kano municipal, Umar El-Yakub and a former Deputy Governor of the state, Magaji Abdullahi.
Others are the party’s youth leader, Nasiru Adhama and Sagiru Panshekara, a former council chairman and now Special Assistant to the state governor.
A reliable source said some members of the party in the state and the National Assembly were equally planning to quit the party and join Mr. Buhari in the new party that he might declare his interest for next week.
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