Someone joked recently that Kano politics never announces itself; it simply rearranges the furniture while everyone is still in the room. By the time you look up, the seating plan has changed, and the door is locked.
That, broadly, is what happened on Monday, January 26, 2026. Governor Abba Yusuf formally returned Kano State to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling party at the centre, coming not alone but accompanied by the entire state.
Twenty-two of 24 Assembly members followed Yusuf, with nine federal lawmakers and all 44 local government chairmen, making it seem less like a defection and more like a coordinated migration, executed with clinical efficiency.