Atiku, Okowa, others hit Kano for Ibrahim Shekarau (images)

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) Atiku Abubakar and his working mate Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta have obtained Ibrahim Shekarau again to the PDP.

Shekarau, the Senator representing Kano Central, was obtained at his house.

Distinguished PDP members on the occasion embody former Vice President Namadi Sambo; the occasion’s BOT chairman, Walid Jibrin; former Jigawa State governor Sule Lamido, Senator Dino Melaye, Governor of Sokoto Aminu Tambuwal.

PDP trustworthy defied the downpour to witness the occasion within the industrial metropolis.

Monday’s anticipated defection got here years after Shekarau left the PDP for the All Progressives Congress (APC). That was in 2019 and he succeeded in profitable a senatorial seat on the platform of the ruling occasion.

However a fallout with Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State led to his defection to the New Nigeria Folks’s Occasion (NNPP). Once more, the lawmaker’s relationship with Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, who later clinched the NNPP presidential ticket, went bitter after a few of his loyalists didn’t get the occasion’s tickets to contest in subsequent 12 months’s common elections.