Ibrahim Shekarau, a former governor of Kano State, said on Thursday that his decision to leave the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was not motivated by self-interest.
Senator Shekarau criticized people who accused him of indiscipline for switching from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the NNPP and then to the PDP within five years in an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today.
The former governor claims that before switching from one political party to the other, he always talked with his grassroots followers.
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Shekarau said: “If it had been my character to do all that because of my personal interests – ask any average man in Kano; the people would not have been coming along with us if it was something selfish or for personal interests.
“Anytime we leave, we have a structure from the unit to the ward to the local government, to the state.
“Our politics has been a politics of consultation, very wide consultation. There was no decision that I have taken politically without taking a referendum across the states.”
Unlike the party he defected from, Shekarau, a former Minister of Education, said the PDP is not a one-man party.
“The people of Kano trust us,” he said. “I assure you by God’s grace, PDP will clear the votes in Kano, if not all but the majority. Because I know what people want.”
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