Barau welcomes NNPP defectors into APC in Kano

The Deputy Senate President, Sen. Jibrin Barau has welcomed thousands of members of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP)/Kwankwasiyya Movement into the All Progressives Congress (APC).

All roads leading to Kabo in Kano North Senatorial District were filled to the brim on Tuesday as the people of Kano State and neighbouring states trooped out en masse to thank President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for converting Federal Polytechnic Kabo to the Federal University of Science and Technology, Kabo.

From across the 44 LGAs of Kano state, the NNPP members, including traders, clerics, youths, butchers, and social media influencers, among others, thrashed their red caps, the symbol of the Kwankwsiyya Movement, at the Amani Event Centre in Kano metropolis on Tuesday.

Under the ” Kungiyar Ceto Al’ummah Kano”, the movement to rescue the people of Kano, the decampees vowed to deliver the state to the APC in the 2027 general elections. 

The Defectors said they were tired of the NNPP’s deception and anxiously await to vote them out in 2027.

During a brief reception in Kano, Senator Barau expressed gratitude to the new members, stating that their decision to join the APC was timely and beneficial.

“Whenever God intends to improve your life, He directs you to the right path.  He has brought you into the APC to improve your life,” he said.

He said the NNPP is fostering confusion and poverty, adding “While the APC is building the Kano and the country, the party (NNPP)  you left is demolishing”.

Describing the Kwankwsiyya movement as “Kwan-kwa-tsiya,” meaning “generating poverty,” Barau urged the new members to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and contribute to consolidating APC’s gains in Kano and the country at large.

In Kabo LGA, the people of Kano State and neighbouring states trooped out to thank the president for converting the Federal Polytechnic Kabo to the Federal University of Science and Technology.