Vice Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has described the party’s newly introduced indemnity form against defection as a welcome development that reinforces constitutional provisions on party supremacy.

Speaking through the Kwankwasiyya spokesperson, Habibu Saleh Mohammed, Kwankwaso said the initiative was in line with the Nigerian Constitution, which frowns at politicians abandoning the platforms that brought them to power.

“What the party is trying to do is only imposing the position of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. To a larger extent, this is what we’ve been talking about,” Mohammed said.

He recalled that the Kwankwasiyya movement had suffered setbacks in the past when key figures defected, including a sitting governor and former deputy leader of the movement, Abdullahi Ganduje (Daily Trust)