Kwankwaso says ready to rejoin APC
A chietain of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso says he is willing to rejoin the All Progressives Congress (APC) if he receives strong commitment from the party.
Kwankwaso, a founding member of the APC, left the party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and later the NNPP over what he called unfulfilled promises.
The former Governor of Kano State was the presidential candidate of the NNPP in the 2023 general election that brought in the administration of President Bola Tinubu, elected on the platform of the APC.
Kwankwaso who also leads the Kwankwasiyya group in the NNPP, made this known when Buhari Bakwana, a former political adviser to ex-Governor Abdullahi Ganduje led some APC members from the 44 local government areas of Kano State to his residence in Kano.
“If you are asking us to join APC, you must tell us what NNPP will gain,” he told the visitors.
“We have gubernatorial candidates in all the states and full structures nationwide. What will you offer them if we join?”
Kwankwaso recalled the frustrations of past alliances with the APC and PDP, which he said ended in betrayal.
“Nobody in the country will tell me the burden we took in creating APC. We were the ones who led the creation of the party, and we were the first set of seven governors to declare support for it. ICPC, EFCC, and the police were all used against me then, just to stop our plans,” he said
“Eight years of APC under the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari gave us nothing, not even appreciation. In PDP, we asked for just a zonal party chairman, but they refused. We left peacefully and today we are strong and have integrity.”
He, however, said the NNPP remains open to fresh negotiations. “We are ready to join APC under strong conditions and promises, we will not allow anyone to use and later dump us.”
