This is not the best of times for the Kwankwasiyya movement, a powerful political group led by a former Governor of Kano State and national leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
The group, which Kwankwaso uses to maintain his political supremacy in the politics of Kano, is on the verge of losing the state governor, Abba Yusuf, who has concluded arrangements to defect from the NNPP to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Yusuf is set to join other political heavyweights, including the Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin and former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, who is the immediate past national chairman of the APC and Kwankwaso’s sworn enemy.