December 26, (THEWILL) – Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as laughable, the claim by Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso that he would significantly reduce APC votes in the state during the 2027 elections.
The Chairman of the party, Prince Abdullahi Abbas, who made the remark on Thursday, urged Kwankwaso “to stop daydreaming and channel his energies towards reclaiming his membership in the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).”
He described Kwankwaso, a former governor of the state, as a political refugee who “had chosen to cling to the state Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, like a leech in a futile attempt to regain relevance in the scheme of things in the country.”
The party warned Kwankwaso and his likes 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 in the 2023 general elections.
“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-centredness.
“We expect Kwankwaso to keep wondering why he has become a wanderer in the political terrain.
“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”, it said.
The APC assured that it was already waiting in the wings to reclaim the state and save the people “from the undue influence of Kwankwaso from his Miller Road castle.”
THEWILL recalls that Kwankwaso made the declaration while receiving some former councillors and senior special advisers who served in the administration of Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje 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 to struggle to secure only 15,000 votes in the state.
He noted that his party, the New Nigeria People’s Party “achieved this remarkable feat despite being a new political platform coupled with the late start of its campaign.
Abdullahi Yusuf is a seasoned journalist, communicator and was previously the Deputy Editor-In-Chief and Zonal Manager, News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Jos, where he retired on December 15, 2021
