Former presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the weekend to debate the way forward for governance and politics in Nigeria.
Kwankwaso, a former Kano State governor, made the disclosure of his assembly with the previous president, at his Otta Farm residence in Ogun State, on his X deal with.
He was accompanied to the assembly by former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke.
Posting an image of himself and Obasanjo and Duke, Kwankwaso wrote “I used to be happy to be in firm of my pal, HE Donald Duke and different associates to pay a courtesy name on President Olusegun Obasanjo at his residence in Abeokuta.
“Deliberations on vital nationwide points, together with the way forward for politics and governance in Nigeria outlined the dialog. We’re grateful to Baba for his heat assist and hospitality,” he mentioned.
Since after the 2023 election, Kwankwaso’s management of the Kwankwasiyya motion and NNPP has been challenged by some celebration leaders particularly in Kano State.
Whereas NNPP has been suffering from a management disaster on the nationwide degree, indications and speculations of a strained relationship between Kwankwaso and his political mentee, the Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, has been rife.
This adopted calls by some Kano NNPP and Kwankwasiyya leaders, calling on the governor to distance himself from Kwankwaso.
The political intrigue had led to the suspension of Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, Secretary to the State Authorities, and Muhammad Diggol, Commissioner for Transport, on allegations of involvement in a splinter group selling Yusuf’s autonomy from Kwankwaso’s affect.
A Home of Representatives member representing Dala Federal Constituency, Aliyu Sani Madakin-Gini, had not too long ago damaged ranks with Kwankwaso simply as a NNPP group, calling itself “Abba Tsaya da Kafarka” (which means “Abba, stand by yourself”), has been vocal in urging Yusuf to distance himself from Kwankwaso and make selections independently.
Nonetheless, the governor has constantly denied claims of discord together with his political mentor, Kwankwaso, insisting that their relationship stays sturdy and primarily based on mutual respect.
In the meantime, it stays hazy whether or not or not the pre-2023 joint ticket talks between Kwankwaso and former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, can be revived forward of 2027.
Nonetheless, whereas Obi had visited Kwankwaso earlier this yr in Kano, Kwankwaso had additionally visited Abia State governor, Alex Otti, the one governor elected on the platform of Labour Party.
Curiously, the Labour Party, which has barely recovered from a authorized battle over its management, has, in lower than two weeks, seen six of its members within the Home of Representatives, dump it for APC.
The celebration’s woes was compounded by its Bayelsa governorship candidate, Odengs Eradiri, and his operating mate, Commodore Benjamin Nathus (rtd), leaving the celebration as properly.
Earlier, a governorship aspirant in Edo State, Kenneth Imansuangbon additionally left the celebration, which carried out woefully within the current, Edo and Ondo governorship elections.
