El-Rufai’s merger plan faces setback as Zainab Sani resigns from SDP

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo

Kaduna — The planned merger betwixt the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC), reportedly championed by erstwhile Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has encountered a setback pursuing the resignation of Hajia Zainab Sani, the SDP Women Leader successful Kaduna State.

Zainab, a grassroots mobilizer from Giwa Local Government Area, announced her resignation connected Thursday, citing the party’s “loss of absorption and transportation with the people.”

“I tin nary longer stay successful a enactment that has mislaid interaction with the people,” she said. “The SDP has failed to show a people-first agenda. Our radical are inactive battling poverty, insecurity, and hunger.”

Zainab, a erstwhile chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and 1 of El-Rufai’s long-time allies, was considered a cardinal fig successful the ongoing SDP–ADC merger consultations. Her exit is viewed by analysts arsenic a important setback to the merger talks.

Political observers successful Kaduna told Vanguard that her resignation could change the emerging governmental dynamics up of the 2027 wide elections, particularly arsenic the SDP continues to look interior challenges.

“Zainab’s departure is not conscionable symbolic—it’s strategic,” 1 expert noted. “She commands sizeable power among women and youths crossed agrarian communities successful Kaduna.”

Sources adjacent to her hinted that she is already successful talks to instrumentality to the APC with respective women mobilizers from bluish and cardinal Kaduna.

If confirmed, her instrumentality could further boost Governor Uba Sani’s grassroots enactment basal and reenforce his administration’s efforts toward inclusive governance and agrarian development.

Analysts accidental the improvement whitethorn besides awesome a displacement successful Kaduna’s governmental landscape—from elite-driven maneuvers to much people-focused engagement—as governmental alignments proceed to instrumentality signifier up of 2027.

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