The Kano State Governor’s defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has been condemned by the New Nigeria Peoples Celebration, NNPP.

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In accordance to the get together’s Nationwide Secretary, Dipo Olayoku, the defection is an indication of a broader collapse of constitutional federalism in Nigeria.

Recall that on Monday, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf formally joined the APC alongside 22 members of the Kano State Home of Meeting and 9 federal lawmakers at an occasion held on the Coronation Corridor of the Kano Authorities Home.

In accordance to him, the choice adopted in depth consultations and was aimed toward strengthening governance and accelerating improvement within the state.

The governor additionally said that higher alignment with the Federal Authorities below President Bola Tinubu would enhance cooperation, service supply, and open up new improvement prospects for the state.

Reacting to this, Olayoku, whereas talking on Eagle 102.5 FM, Ilese Ijebu, and monitored by our correspondent in Abeokuta on Tuesday, mentioned the defection was not totally shocking however remained unsettling for the get together management.

Olayoku asserted that the present federal construction undermines true federalism and reduces state governors to mere subordinates of the presidency.

“Sadly, right this moment, what we’ve got in Nigeria is a principal—that is the president and sophistication captains, the governors. That is what the present administration has reduced our governors to.

“It didn’t come as a shock, however it is surprising. His defection wasn’t one thing we might have prevented. We did every part doable inside our attain, however in the end, the choice was his. There are pressures in our democracy right this moment that make conditions like this inevitable.

“We’ve seen comparable instances, like Governor Siminalayi Fubara in Rivers State, and the pressures from the ruling get together may be intense.”

He asserted that Governor Yusuf had encountered extreme strain from outdoors sources and ongoing resistance from federal establishments, which he mentioned made governance difficult.

“When you’ve got a governor who offers an order and the Commissioner of Police counters it, then it tells you the kind of democracy we’re in,” Olayoku mentioned.

Olayoku cautioned that the defection pattern poses a menace to Nigeria’s multiparty democracy past get together politics, including that, “It is not a lesson for the NNPP. It is a wake-up name to Nigerians. Multiparty democracy in Nigeria is below severe menace.”