Labour Party Split In Kano After Tinubu’s Meeting With Leaders

The Labour Party in Kano State is headed for a division following the apparent move by the party’s governorship candidate Bashir Ishaq Bashir, to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC, following two meetings with the APC’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.

However, GWG.ng reports that the mainstream of the party as led by the state chairman, Mohammed Abdullahi appears not to be going along with the candidate.

GWG.ng had reported that Tinubu met with some leaders of the party led by Bashir in Abuja last weekend following which reports emerged of the imminent defection of the candidate.

Pictures of the LP candidate trended on social media on Sunday, with allegations that he has defected to APC and has abandoned his governorship ambition.

But speaking to Daily Trust on Monday, Bashir confirmed meeting Tinubu, but said a formal statement would soon be made on his next step.

However, one of his associates, who asked not to be named, told Daily Trust that Bashir and other party leaders had concluded plans to defect to the ruling APC, citing exclusion of major Northern stakeholders in the decision-making process of his party.

Bashir shunned the rally of his party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, when he visited Kano State.

Labour Party Chairman in Kano, Mohammed Abdullahi, on Monday said the party remained committed in their support to the Obi-Datti candidature despite the intervention by Tinubu into the affairs of the party.

Though the chairman did not categorically mention Bashir’s name, he alleged that there were people planning to leave the party, but that it was their personal decision that had nothing to do with the party leadership.

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