On April 15th 2014, ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, a PDP member, visited Kano state for his campaign rally. Hours after his rally was done and he had left the state for Abuja, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso who was the governor of the state at the time and a member of APC, gathered his commissioners to ''sweep'' Jonathan out of the state.
On July 24th, Kwankwaso defected from APC to PDP and recently went to pay a consultative visit to Jonathan whom he swept away in 2014.