Defection: Kwankwaso must follow due process – Shekarau

Former Governor of Kano State, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, has lauded the defection of Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso from the All progressives Congress (APC) to the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
However, the former Minister of Education in the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration urged the leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement and his teeming supporters to abide by the rules.
Senator Kwankwaso, the immediate past governor of Kano State had at logger heads with his successor, Governor Ganduje, and got worst during the state congress where the incumbent was alleged to have shut the doors on the senator and his candidates and supporters ensuring he had no control of the wards, local council and state executives.
Kwankwaso it would be recalled had been in a similar situation with Shekarau, who as a founding member of the APC had to leave the party for him when serving governors who dumped the PDP for the APC were asked to lead the party in their states.
The former governor who spoke through his media aide, Sule Ya’u Sule, said he hoped Kwankwaso had changed.
“I hope the PDP has received a reformed Kwankwaso. I hope it is not the old Kwankwaso I knew,” Shekarau said.
“I hope he will this time around abide by the rules and regulations of the PDP. I hope he will not repeat what he did after he joined APC in 2015. At that time, he took over everything leaving us with empty hand,” he said.
Shekarau regretted that the party they had laboured for at the end handed over the leadership of the party to Kwankwaso in 2015.
“I hope Kwankwaso is not coming to the PDP to repeat the injustice he did in 2015. If everybody will be allowed to play his card according to rules of the party, that will be better for him (Kwankwaso) and every member of the party,” he said.