The New Nigeria Peoples Get together (NNPP) says Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano doesn’t want Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso’s endorsement to hitch the APC or every other occasion of his selection.
The occasion additionally said that the governor doesn’t want Kwankwaso’s approval to stay within the NNPP.
Recall that Yusuf is the NNPP’s sole governor, while Kwankwaso is the occasion’s 2023 presidential candidate who was later expelled for alleged anti-party actions.
The NNPP assertion was approaching the background of an announcement by Kwankwaso’s spokesman, Mr Ladipo Johnson, that his principal has not endorsed Yusuf’s defection to the APC as reported.
Johnson, in an announcement on Sunday night time, described the breaking information that Kwankwaso has reversed his place to endorse Yusuf’s defection as false.
Johnson had alleged that these looking for to maneuver from the NNPP had been answerable for misinforming the folks on Kwankwaso’s stand.
The NNPP, by means of its Nationwide Secretary, Mr Ogini Olaposi, in Lagos on Monday, reiterated that the Kano governor, because the occasion’s sole governor and chief, doesn’t want Kwankwaso’s approval to hitch the ruling occasion.
“While we advise the governor to stay within the NNPP, we additionally perceive that it’s inside his constitutional rights to hitch any occasion of his selection as a result of escalating authorized battles.
“NNPP doesn’t have any misgivings towards any political occasion, together with the APC, and so can’t forcefully demand that its governor should stay within the occasion.
“If the governor had made up his thoughts to depart the NNPP, no dictatorial tendencies and blackmail might cease him.
“Yusuf has been doing effectively because the governor of Kano state, and we is not going to be a stumbling block on his path by insisting he stays within the NNPP towards his will,” Olaposi said.
He reiterated that Kwankwaso and his Kwankwasiya Motion ought to cease distracting the governor and may enable him to proceed his good works in Kano.
“What Kwankwaso has failed to inform us is that if his stand on the governor’s alleged deliberate defection is out of godfatherism or if he has private points towards the ruling occasion.
“No matter misgiving he has towards the APC ought to stay private and shouldn’t be pressured on others wishing to hitch the occasion,’ he added.
Reacting to Johnson’s allegation that Kwankwaso described the upcoming transfer by some members of the Kwankwasiya motion and the NNPP led by Yusuf as a chilly betrayal of belief and the mandate given to him, the occasion mentioned it’s simply nemesis.
“Kwankwaso and his group now understand how betrayal feels, when he tried to hijack a celebration that gave him a platform to contest election free of charge in 2023.
“We are going to stay in help of the Kano State governor and any choice he takes however nonetheless advise and encourage him to have a rethink and stay with the NNPP.
“Kwankwaso stays expelled from the NNPP for the nice of the occasion and members.” (NAN)
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