Hon. Tijjani Abdulkadir Jobe, who represents Dawakin Tofa/Tofa/Rimin Gado Federal Constituency, was heckled and hustled out of the APC ward congress in Tofa, Kano State, on Saturday after youths protesting his return to the party drowned out his speech.
Clips now trending online show supporters shouting him down as he tried to address the leadership election meeting in his hometown.
“Wallahi, our leader, there are issues to fix. We hunters, you have not considered us,” one voice yells.
The mood soured fast; aides bundled Jobe into a waiting car while the crowd kept up the abuse.
The flare-up caps a rough re-entry for the five-term lawmaker. Earlier this month he begged constituents to “forgive any shortcomings” at a stakeholders’ meeting that also ended in chaos.
Jobe, elected for a fifth time in 2023, only recently left the NNPP and re-joined the APC, stoking talk that he wants an automatic ticket for a sixth run. Saturday’s event was meant to be his first home-coming appearance since that switch.
The constituency—birthplace of heavyweights such as the late Danmasanin Kano, Yusuf Maitama Sule—has become a political hot zone, with several APC figures already jockeying for the 2027 race.
Some locals say Jobe’s 19-year stint in the House has little to show. Critic Umar Danladi claims the lawmaker has sponsored only one bill—an unpassed proposal for a Federal University of Medical Sciences—and “barely speaks on the floor.”
