The National Working Committee, NWC, of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has taken a swipe at Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State following his final resignation from the party, describing the action as a cold betrayal of a sacred trust.
In a statement signed on Saturday by the NNPP National Publicity Secretary, Ladipo Johnson, the party described Yusuf’s assertion of an irredeemable crisis in the party as therefore baseless and an afterthought.
Recall that Governor Yusuf of Kano State had on Friday finally resigned from the NNPP and is expected to join the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature, announced the development in a statement on Friday.
He said the governor, in a letter addressed to the NNPP chairperson of Diso-Chiranchi Ward, Gwale Local Government Area, officially communicated his decision to withdraw from the party, effective 23 January.
“I write with a deep sense of gratitude to formally notify the leadership of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) of my decision to resign my membership of the party, with effect from Friday, 23rd,January 2026″, Mr Bature quoted his principal saying.
NNPP’s statement read, “It is with profound anguish and deep disappointment that we received the news of the resignation and defection of His Excellency, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
“We deeply regret that Governor Abba, a man entrusted by the people of Kano State on the strength of his decades of unwavering loyalty and dedicated service to the Kwankwasiyya Movement, has now chosen to betray that sacred trust. By this action, he risks returning the state to the very forces that have long opposed its progress and the aspirations of its people.
