Rep Doguwa Receives Ex-NNPP Leaders Into APC, Rallys Support For Tinubu, Gov Yusuf
Abdullahi Yusuf
Chairman House Committee on Downstream Petroleum, Alhassan Ado Doguwa,on Saturday received hundreds of former members of the New Nigeria Peoples Party(NNPP) into the All Progressives Congress(APC) led by Haruna Umar Doguwa, the Kano State Commissioner of Water Resources.
Ado Doguwa disclosed this in a statement circulated to journalists in Kano on Saturday.
The lawmaker said himself alongside the defecting NNPP members also conducted their APC membership E-registration, and held a rally during which he launched the President Tinubu/Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf second term campaign.
“We all pledged to work for the overall interest of the APC under His Excellency President Bola Tinubu at the centre,and the leadership of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf at the sub-national level,as clearly reflected in our party’s constitution and in compliance with the tenets of constitutional democracy.
“We have all embraced this development in good faith and believe that same can be seen as a WIN-WIN situation for all party members.We are now co-drivers of the governor’s political project called “KANO FIRST”.
“I led an all inclusive approach of the APC membership E-registration exercise in Doguwa Local Government Area of Kano state, where I received among others, prominent members of the defunct NNPP into the ruling APC.
“The Honourable Commissioner of Water Resources Kano State and former APC state Chairman Alhaji Umar Haruna Doguwa, Engr. Ado Ibrahim Doguwa and the Chairman Doguwa Local Government, Abdul Rashid Doguwa, and his entire executive, legislative teams and a host of others decamped from the NNPP who are mostly government officials under the leadership Governor Yusuf,” Ado Doguwa said.
Already, the entire structures of NNPP at both Tuduwada and Doguwa Local Governments, have been collapsed into the APC with the House of Representatives member, Alhassan Doguwa leading the campaign,the statement added.