Mustapha Bala Dawaki and Rabiu Kwankwaso. Photo credit: Hussaini Ibrahim
A former member of the House of Representatives and erstwhile Chief of Staff to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, Mustapha Bala Dawaki, has defected from the ruling party to the Nigeria Democratic Congress ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Dawaki was officially received on Monday by a leader of the NDC and founder of the Kwankwasiyya movement, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, during a meeting held at Kwankwaso’s Miller Road residence in Kano.
PUNCH gathered that the former lawmaker was welcomed into the Kwankwasiyya fold with the symbolic red cap associated with the political movement.
The development comes barely one week after Dawaki reportedly lost his bid to secure the APC consensus ticket for the Dawakin Kudu/Warawa Federal Constituency seat.
