As the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dissolved the party’s entire Kano State Working Committee (SWC), the removed State Chairman of the party, Dr Bello Gambo Bichi, said he accepted the action as his sacrifice for a better PDP.
According to a letter dated Thursday, September 24, 2026, and signed by the PDP National Organising Secretary, Hon. Umar M. Bature, the dissolution took immediate effect.
Responding to the dissolution, Bichi explained that he wholly accepted his removal because it was part of the preconditions laid down by former state governorship candidate Dalhatu, who also sacrificed his candidacy for Muhammad Abacha.
The letter, addressed to the Kano State PDP chairman and titled “Dissolution of PDP State Working Committee, Kano State”, stated that the decision followed due consultations by the party’s National Working Committee.
“the entire PDP State Working Committee (SWC) for Kano State chaired by Dr. Bello Gambo Bichi is hereby DISSOLVED with effect from the date of this letter,” the letter stated.
However, the national leadership clarified that the dissolution affected only the State Working Committee, stressing that the party’s Ward and Local Government Area (LGA) working committees remained intact.
“This dissolution affects the State Working Committee ONLY. The Ward and LGA Working Committees are NOT AFFECTED by this dissolution,” the letter stated.
The PDP national leadership further announced that the North-West Caretaker Committee would henceforth take charge of the affairs of the Kano State chapter pending the election of a new State Working Committee.
Dr Bello Gambo Bichi hinted that the new Electoral Act mandated that, in the case of changes within a party, the person to be replaced must put it in writing that they had agreed to step down and must also be allowed to give their personal conditions.
“When we agreed to reconciled PDP in Kano and bring Muhammad Abacha to replace our Candidate, because we believes he is more powerful to go for the seat, Dalhatu gives out some Condition including dissolving my State Executive which I agreed as a sacrifice”, he added.
