The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is expected back in the country on Sunday to receive Ibrahim Shekarau into the main opposition party.
Shekarau, a former Kano State governor, is unsettled at the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), and he is believed to be on his way out.
Atiku is expected to return from the UK on Sunday, where he had met with Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State.
The former vice-president is billed to meet with Shekarau ahead of his official defection to the PDP.
Shekerau left the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the NNPP in May 2022 after months of leadership tussle with Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano.
The senator representing Kano central said APC’s inability to settle the crisis between his faction and Ganduje’s camp resulted in his exit.
But his new alliance with the NNPP would prove to be short-lived. A few days ago, Shekarau opened up on his disgruntlement with the party.
He said the NNPP under the leadership of Rabiu Kwankwaso, the party’s presidential candidate, failed to integrate his supporters.
Shekarau accused Kwankwaso of betraying the agreement they had before his defection.
“I will never be a party to injustice. My integrity is of utmost and not any political position that will make me compromise it and that of my people. Nobody will use position or money against my integrity,” he had said.
“Nobody will use money to change my conscience. I was a governor for eight years in Kano and people believed in my integrity.”