Kano Senator Orders Ex-NNPP Chairmen To Return Vehicles Following APC Defection
Kano Senator Orders Ex-NNPP Chairmen To Return Vehicles Following APC Defection
The instruction was conveyed in a letter dated January 28 and signed by the Secretary to the Senator’s Office, Engr. Ibrahim Nakwalli Kawaji. The letter was sighted by Daily Trust on Sunday.
The Kano State Senator representing Kano Central Senatorial District under the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Rufai Sani Hanga, has directed the former party local government chairmen in the district to return vehicles earlier provided to them following their defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The instruction was conveyed in a letter dated January 28 and signed by the Secretary to the Senator’s Office, Engr. Ibrahim Nakwalli Kawaji. The letter was sighted by Daily Trust on Sunday.
A copy of the letter, addressed to the NNPP chairman of Kura Local Government Area, Alhaji Ubale Isyaku Waskas, instructed him to return “the party vehicle provided to you by the Distinguished Senator Rufai Hanga for NNPP activities in your local government” to the senator’s office at No. 48, Sokoto Road, Nasarawa GRA, Kano.
The letter stated that the vehicle should be returned between January 28 and January 30, 2026.
It added that the vehicle would be kept at the senator’s office pending resolution of the party’s internal matters and urged recipients to “continue serving the party faithfully during the period.”
Daily Trust reports that the directive applies to all NNPP local government chairmen under Kano Central Senatorial District.
The affected local government areas include Dala, Dawakin Kudu, Fagge, Garun Mallam, Gezawa, Gwale, Kano Municipal, Kumbotso, Kura, Madobi, Minjibir, Nasarawa, Tarauni, Ungogo, and Warawa.
The letter further directed that the vehicles be handed over directly to the head of the senator’s office, Alhaji Shehu Tijjani Usman Tarauni.
Last week, Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf formally defected to the APC alongside over 20 members of the State House of Assembly, eight members of the House of Representatives, and all 44 local government chairmen in the state.
The development has continued to draw reactions from political actors and party supporters in Kano.
One respondent, social media user Sani Gilashi Haruna, criticised the directive, describing it as “unfortunate and inconsistent with past political practices in the state.”
He recalled that a prominent politician, Alhaji Abdussalam Abdulkarim, popularly known as AA Zaura, had previously distributed vehicles to party leaders across the 44 local government areas of Kano State without later requesting their return after losing an election.
He added that Senator Hanga had earlier described the distribution as empowerment, questioning the rationale for requesting the vehicles back.
In a related development, Alhaji Abdussalam Abdulkarim said he was prepared to provide alternative vehicles to the affected party leaders if Senator Hanga insisted on retrieving those earlier given to them.
His spokesperson, Malam Dahiru Ahmad Maihuddadu, said AA Zaura was ready to support the leaders with “better vehicles,” describing the senator’s action as regrettable.
