A Commissioner for Agriculture during the era of Rabiu Kwankwaso as governor, Yusuf Kibiya, has been elected as the new chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State.
Kibiya served between 1999 and 2003.
The party’s Election Committee chairman, Halilu Mazagani, revealed this while announcing the election results on Sunday.
He said Kibiya won the election after scoring 3,964 votes to beat his opponent, Nura Nuhu, who scored 244 votes.
Mazagani, praised the party’s officials in the state “for a job well done,” saying the smooth conduct of the congress was an indication that the PDP would soon resolve the internal crisis lingering in the party to make it “a better and stronger opposition that can defeat the ruling party.
“Our party being the largest in Africa, no doubt, faces some internal challenges, but as always, we have learnt to manage our differences.
“I can assure you today that we are working hard to ensure unity and we are mobilising like never before, to ensure our success in the forthcoming 2027 general elections which I can confidently say the people will vote for us.
“Our party being the largest in Africa, no doubt, faces some internal challenges, but as always, we have learnt to manage our differences.
“I can assure you today that we are working hard to ensure unity and we are mobilising like never before, to ensure our success in the forthcoming 2027 general elections which I can confidently say the people will vote for us.
“So, it is now left for us to present credible candidates to Nigerians like we did before and we wish to improve on that.”
Former Kano governor, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, assured all that the party would produce a winning team in the 2027 general elections, saying the PDP is poised to challenge any party in any election in the country, including the local government election scheduled to hold on October 26, 2024.
