Former presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has instructed political opponents who’re underrating the occasion to brace up for surprises at 2027 polls.
Kwankwaso, who gave the warning whereas addressing supporters at his Miller Highway residence in Kano, declared that NNPP will shock those that have written the occasion off with the end result of elections in 2027.
He mentioned the occasion was being underestimated by individuals who, in line with him, don’t perceive the dynamics of Nigerian politics.
In keeping with him, “Lots of people who don’t know politics are underrating us. Some are saying we’re kids.
“We are going to shock them on the polls with the end result of the elections,” Kwankwaso mentioned.
The previous two-term governor of Kano, nevertheless, assured his supporters that the NNPP stays robust and ready, urging them to remain targeted and dedicated forward of the elections.
In the meantime, a chieftain of NNPP, Buba Galadima, has dismissed insinuation that former Presidential candidate of NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, is on his manner out of the occasion.
He spoke towards the backdrop of reviews that Kwankwaso’s might defect to African Democratic Congress (ADC), following the unfolding political intrigues with NNPP in Kano.
Galadima, nevertheless instructed LEADERSHIP that “He (Kwankwaso) continues to be the chief of the NNPP. He has not resigned his membership of the occasion. So there isn’t a manner he can transfer to a different occasion.”
He nevertheless declined feedback on the alleged defection plans of the Kano State governor, Abba Yusuf.
In a associated growth, former chairman of NNPP in Kano, Hashimu Dungurawa, has described the divergence between Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, and Kwankwaso as deeply troubling.
Talking with LEADERSHIP, Dungurawa alleged that Governor Yusuf betrayed a belief constructed for over greater than 4 a long time.
He mentioned Yusuf was not solely a detailed political ally however a member of the family and longtime aide of Kwankwaso. He additional claimed that the NNPP chief had entrusted him with delicate political and private paperwork through the years as a consequence of their shut relationship.
“He was tolerated, guided and supported for 43 years. There was by no means a time the chief complained about him,” the previous chairman mentioned. “It’s only after turning into governor, in lower than three years, that individuals round him started to affect him to show towards the very man who made him politically.”
He alleged that the governor’s posture was pushed by enemies of democracy and opportunists who sought to wreck the longstanding relationship between Kwankwaso and Yusuf.
The ex-NNPP chairman nevertheless declined to talk about Kwankwaso’s attainable defection to ADC, saying the unfolding disaster in Kano had made political outcomes more and more unpredictable.
He, nevertheless, mentioned he stays a dedicated NNPP member, praising the occasion for elevating him from a vice-chairmanship place to state chairman.
“I’ve no remorse becoming a member of NNPP or remaining in it. The occasion has achieved excellently for me,” he mentioned, including that he continued to wish for the occasion’s success forward of the 2027 common elections.
Regardless of the disaster, he insisted that Kwankwaso’s political affect in Kano remained unshaken, noting that the NNPP’s sweeping victory within the final elections demonstrated the previous governor’s enduring reputation.
“The folks of Kano consider in Kwankwaso. Wherever he goes, politically, they’re more likely to observe,” he mentioned.
