Why Kano Speaker Resigns, Remains in PDP

The Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Alhaji Gambo Sallau, has resigned his position, while a new speaker, Hon. Isyaku Ali Danja, from Gezawa constituency, has been elected.

Sallau said his reason for resigning from the position was based on his decision not to defect to another party.

Gamba Sallau-Photo Credit: Freedom Radio, Kano

Gambo’s resignation had been anticipated since Monday, when 26 members of the 31-man Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) contingent jumped ship to the All Progressive Congress (APC), handing over the reins of the 40-member Assembly to the opposition party.
Prominent among the PDP members who defected to APC are Deputy Speaker of the House, Alhaji Isyaku Ali Danja; erstwhile Speaker, Yusuf Abdullahi Falgore (representing Rogo constituency); Majority Leader of the House, Engr. Hamisu Ibrahim (Makoda constituency); Deputy Majority Leader, Alhaji Yusuf Babangida Suleman (Gwale constituency); and Chief Whip of the House, Alhaji Abdullahi Iliyasu Yunusa.
“I, Gambo Sallau, Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, hereby announce my resignation as Speaker”, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted Gambo as saying on Freedom Radio, a broadcast medium based in the north-western city of Kano.
“My decision to resign as Speaker is based on political reasons. Now that the PDP has become an opposition party, I will not continue to be Speaker of the House”.
Born in 1960 in Kafin Maiyaki in Kiru Local Government Area in Kano State, Hon. Gambo was appointed Chairman of his local government between 1997 and 1998. In 1999, he contested and won election into the Kano State House of Assembly. Gambo won again in 2003, and has been an ever-present feature at the Assembly since then.