Politics
Breaking News: Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya Loses Kano South Senate Ticket as NDC Picks Ex-NARTO Boss, Batayya
Former Kano South Senator, Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya, has lost his bid to return to the Senate after the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) selected former National Chairman of the National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO), Alkasim Ibrahim Batayya, as its candidate for the 2027 election.
Gaya, who recently defected to the NDC after leaving both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC), had sought the party’s ticket for Kano South Senatorial District.
The party, however, settled for Batayya through a consensus arrangement reached during a meeting held at the Miller Road residence of former Kano State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, in Kano on Sunday.
Kwankwasiyya’s spokesperson, Mansur Kurugu, confirmed the development, saying Gaya has accepted the outcome and pledged support for the party’s candidate.
“Kabiru Gaya has already accepted the decision and has promised to give his maximum support for Batayya to win the seat,” Kurugu said.
He added that the consensus process would continue until all elective positions are decided without necessarily conducting primary elections.
A video later shared by Kwankwaso’s media aide, Saifullahi Hassan, showed Gaya publicly endorsing the decision.
The development marks a major political setback for Gaya, who represented Kano South in the Senate from 2015 to 2023 and also served as governor of Kano State during the Third Republic.
Batayya is expected to face incumbent Senator, Sumaila, who won the seat in 2023 under the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) before defecting to the APC, where he has secured the party’s ticket for the 2027 contest.
Edo North senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has playfully called out Senate President Godswill Akpabio for breaching truce over ‘massaging women’s legs’ comment.
At plenary on Thursday, Oshiomhole said he signed a truce of no more hostilities, stating that Akpabio breached the agreement by reverting to previous matters.
DAILY POST reports that Akpabio had mocked Oshiomhole over the viral video allegedly showing him massaging a woman’s leg aboard a private jet.
The Senate President stated that the Senate initially ignored the footage because it was suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence, AI.
Recall that a video which surfaced on X on February 3, 2026, sparked widespread reactions after it allegedly showed the former Edo State governor massaging a woman’s leg inside a private jet, days later the lawmaker debunked the video stating that it was AI.
Joking over it at the plenary, Oshiomhole said, “I want to report to this house that the senate president and I we signed a truce of no more hostilities and senate president breach the truce by reverting to previous matter, the truce stands, you should not violate, I will not violate.”
Responding, Akpabio said, “Let me first of all apologize to Oshiomhole if whatever I said could in any way injure him or feel offended.”
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Members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, loyal to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, have taken over the secretariat of the party in Oyo State.
The secretariat, located in the Molete area of Ibadan, was in the custody of the faction loyal to Governor Seyi Makinde of the state until Thursday when the members loyal to Wike took over the premises.
DAILY POST gathered that the PDP members stormed the secretariat on Thursday and occupied the premises with hundreds of members of the party in attendance.
PDP chairman in the state, Professor Abdulrahman Akinoso, confirmed the development to DAILY POST.
Akinoso in a telephone conversation with DAILY POST on Thursday, insisted that the real owners have taken over the premises.
He said, “It is true. It is not faction. It is PDP. We have taken over the premises. It was in the morning. We were there in the morning. We just left the premises. We are now in control. We have taken over the premises.” .…For more, Complete your reading.
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