The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, as a refugee politician desperately keen on remaining relevant in the country.
The chairman of the state chapter, Prince Abdullahi Abass, in a statement on Thursday, noted that the claim by the embattled former Kano State governor and so-called leader of the Kwankwasiyya
Movement that he would significantly reduce the APC votes in Kano during the 2027 elections is not only ridiculous but laughable.
Calling on Kwankwaso to stop daydreaming and channel his energies towards reclaiming his membership in the NNPP, the party described Kwankwaso as a political refugee who cannot be accommodated by any political party worth its salt in the country.
APC warned Kwankwaso and his ilk that it would not allow a repeat of the vote manipulation and allocation that created the impression that the NNPP is well-rooted in Kano State during the 2023 general election.
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“Our teeming supporters in the APC have no cause to worry about Kwankwaso, who has been booted out of NNPP due to his cluelessness and self-centeredness. We expect Kwankwaso to keep wondering why he has become a wanderer in the political terrain,” APC noted.
“He ran away from APC because he couldn’t fit into our progressive ideals. His over-bloated ego and domineering posture forced him to abandon the PDP, and he has now become a political refugee because the NNPP refused to accommodate him.”
Abass thereby assured that the APC is already waiting in the wings to not only reclaim Kano State but also save the people of the state from the undue influence of Kwankwaso from his Miller Road castle.
Recall that Kwankwaso made the declaration while receiving some unidentified people he claimed are former councillors and senior special advisers who served under Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s administration during a meeting at his residence in Kano, with stakeholders from Tsanyawa Local Government Area.
He credited the hard work of his team during the 2023 elections, which sidelined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and caused it to struggle to secure only 15,000 votes in Kano.
He noted that his party, the NNPP, achieved this remarkable feat despite being a new political platform coupled with the late start of its campaign.
“Now, it’s our turn to diminish APC’s influence. We will work tirelessly to ensure their votes are reduced to less than 15,000 in Kano come 2027,” Kwankwaso added.
