Kulu Abubakar Resigns As Sokoto Commissioner, Dumps PDP For APC

Hajiya Kulu Haruna Abubakar, the Sokoto State Commissioner for Science and Technology, is said to have resigned.

WITHIN NIGERIA gathered that the commissioner announced her departure from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join forces with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Adamu Garba, a former presidential aspirant, and APC chieftain revealed this on Monday evening, alleging that Hajiya Abubakar, among others, abandoned the nation’s opposition party.

Commissioner for Science and Technology in Sokoto State, Hajiya Kulu Haruna Abubakar resigns and dumps from PDP, joins the APC, alongside so many others.

Sokoto is coming back to APC in 2023. You can write this down, Garba noted via his verified Twitter handle on Monday evening.

Commissioner for Science and Technology in Sokoto State, Hajiya Kulu Haruna Abubakar resigns and dumps from PDP, joins the APC, alongside so many others.

Sokoto is coming back to APC in 2023. You can write this down. pic.twitter.com/UHbO5sjJtr

— Adamu Garba II (@adamugarba) January 23, 2023

Kulu Haruna and others are on the PDP screening committee for Deputy Governorship candidates

WITHIN NIGERIA has learned that Abubakar was a member of a committee established earlier by the PDP ahead of the 2023 general elections to screen and verify the party’s nominated deputy governorship candidates in all 28 states where governorship elections are scheduled to take place across the federation.

Debo Ologunagba, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, confirmed the committee list in an address to journalists in Abuja in June 2022.

Ologunagba stated that the National Working Committee’s mandate to form the committee was in accordance with the provisions of Part V, Paragraph 11 of the party’s Electoral Guidelines.

According to the party, the committee will be led by Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, with Dr. Akilu Indabawa serving as Secretary and Sunday Omobo serving as Administrative Secretary.

Fidelis Tapgun, Rt. Hon. Binta Bello, Suleiman Usman (SAN), Dr. Istifanus Zabadi, Hajia Kulu Haruna, Ayotunde George-Ologun, and Debby Nicol are also members of the committee.