Rising from a meeting on Tuesday, the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) approved the final list of candidates for the 2023
elections.
The list includes the name, party, educational
qualification, and age of each candidate for seats on the presidency and
national assembly.
Ibrahim Shekarau, a former Kano governor and senator
currently representing Kano central, also made the list.
However, checks showed that Shekarau is listed as the
senatorial candidate for the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) — a party he had
dumped in August.
Recall that Shekarau officially defected to the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) after accusing Rabiu Kwankwaso, the NNPP presidential
candidate, and his supporters of not accommodating his loyalists.
“All the agreements we had with him were betrayed by
Kwankwaso and his boys and they did not accommodate one single person from my
camp,” Shekarau had said.
“We reached an agreement to accommodate my supporters into
various elective positions in the party, but until now, the committee set up
could not accommodate one single person apart from the senatorial slot given to
me.
“I will never be a party to injustice. My integrity is
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.”
Meanwhile, in May, Shekerau had left the All Progressives
Congress (APC) for the NNPP after months of leadership tussle with Abdullahi
Ganduje, governor of Kano.
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