{"id":199280,"date":"2026-04-22T18:12:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:18:47","slug":"four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc","title":{"rendered":"Four Kano Reps dump NNPP, join ADC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Defections have continued to rock the National Assembly as four members of the House of Representatives from Kano State, on Wednesday, dumped the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for the African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas, announced the defections during plenary after reading the formal letters submitted by the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers involved are Sani Wakili, representing Minjibir\/Ungogo Federal Constituency, Muktar Zakari of Tarauni Federal Constituency, Umar Datti of Kura\/Madobi\/Garun Mallam Federal Constituency and Abdulhakeem Ado of Wudil\/Garko Federal Constituency.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that on Tuesday, the House witnessed another round of defections, with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) losing five members, while the All Progressives Congress (APC) also recorded the exit of two lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Defections have continued to rock the National Assembly as four members of the House of Representatives from Kano State, on Wednesday, dumped the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas, announced the defections during plenary after reading the formal letters submitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":199279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-199280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Four Kano Reps dump NNPP, join ADC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Defections have continued to rock the National Assembly as four members of the House of Representatives from Kano State, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four Kano Reps dump NNPP, join ADC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Defections have continued to rock the National Assembly as four members of the House of Representatives from Kano State, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-04-22T17:12:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-22T18:18:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/sm_1776881874.624668.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Four Kano Reps dump NNPP, join ADC\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-22T17:12:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-22T18:18:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc\"},\"wordCount\":144,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/sm_1776881874.624668.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/four-kano-reps-dump-nnpp-join-adc\",\"name\":\"Four Kano Reps dump NNPP, join ADC - 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