{"id":219507,"date":"2026-04-13T20:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219507"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:47:59","slug":"yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219507","title":{"rendered":"Yusuf\u2019s defection, Kwankwaso and the 2027 Kano election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kano State, the bastion of progressive politics in Northern Nigeria, is going through a turbulent time. This turbulence has caused a tectonic shift in the state\u2019s political map. Mallam Abba Kabir Yusuf, nicknamed Abba Gida-Gida by his numerous supporters, the only governor elected on the platform of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and a [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post Yusuf\u2019s defection&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tribuneonlineng.com\/yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kano State, the bastion of progressive politics in Northern Nigeria, is going through a turbulent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219507-yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election.jpg",1200,1200,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219507-yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219507-yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219507-yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election-768x768.jpg",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219507-yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election-1024x1024.jpg",640,640,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219507-yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election.jpg",1200,1200,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219507-yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election.jpg",1200,1200,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219507-yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election-1024x1024.jpg",1024,1024,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219507-yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219507-yusufs-defection-kwankwaso-and-the-2027-kano-election-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}