PDP youth director assures prominent APC members almost decamp to PDP

From Ali Rabiu Ali, Dutse.

The youth director of the peoples democratic party PDP Umar Danjani Hadejia, assures that Senator Danladi Abdullahi Sankara representing Jigawa North West Senatorial District will soon decamp to leave APC for PDP.

He made the prediction in an interview with Daily trust ahead of the visit by  PDP gubernatorial candidate in the state Alhaji Mustapha Sule Lamido to Sankara on Saturday.

He said Danladi Sankara was a PDP member who left the party as a result of little misunderstanding now realized the truth and ready to decamp. 

Recalled that Dr Mustapha Sule Lamido, on Saturday visited Senator Danladi Abdullahi Sankara representing Jigawa North West Senatorial District at his residence in Abuja.

The governorship candidate was accompanied by the former governor of the state and the PDP senatorial candidate for Jigawa North West, Saminu Turaki, on Saturday on his second visit in barely two weeks.

Sankara, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information and National Orientation, suddenly developed cold feet at attending APC activities in Jigawa and at the national level until it became clearer to party supporters that all was not well. He also snubbed APC political campaigns.

It was gathered that the lawmaker in the upper legislative chamber, who has remained mum since he lost a comeback at the APC primary election in May, was conspicuously absent at the APC campaign, which took place on Friday, December 16, 2022, in two local government areas, Malam Madori and Kaugama.

On his verified Face page, Dr Mustapha Lamido said he joined the former governor of the state, Saminu Turaki, with Senator Danladi Sankara in a meeting he described as critical to the development of Jigawa State.

He wrote: “This evening, I joined the former governor of Jigawa State, Saminu Turaki and the Senator representing Jigawa North West, Danladi Abdullahi Sankara, in a critical meeting to discuss issues about election and development of the state.”

Sankara is among the 58 Senators who lost tickets of their political parties and would not return in 2023.