JUST IN: Kaduna deputy speaker, member dump APC for LP

Suleiman Dabo, a state representative for Zaria, and Isaac Auta Zankai, the deputy speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, both switched from the APC to the state’s Labor Party.

In the state Assembly, the Deputy Speaker represents the Kauru state constituency.

Umar Farouk Ibrahim, the Labour Party’s national secretary and chairman of the governorship council, made the declaration on Thursday in Kaduna during the inauguration of the 450-member Governorship Campaign Council and the release of the party’s platform.

Ibrahim bragged that “Obi-Datti” apostles made up half of the state House of Assembly, stating that this support from prominent figures in the state was a sign that the party was headed for political dominance at both the state and the federal levels in the upcoming general elections.

“Honestly speaking, today is one of the happiest days of my life,” he remarked. In my travels to spread the word about Peter Obi, our presidential candidate, I have been well received.

The quality of the people that grace this inauguration particularly impresses me. Except for the Deputy Speaker and another member from the Zaria state seat in Kaduna State, none of the personalities in the northern states have left the APC for the Labor Party.

The LP scribe also exhorted party members in the state to band together and win the upcoming elections with ease.

He advised Nigerian youths, who made up the majority of the Labour Party, to persist until Obi-Datti established the nation’s next government because, in his words, “power rests with the young.”