NNPP members don’t have that interest, intention. We see APC party as enemy of democracy.
Hashimu Dungurawa, the Kano State Chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), has asserted that neither the 2023 Presidential Candidate, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, nor others want to switch to the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Dungurawa made this statement in response to rumors regarding Kwankwaso’s potential defection to the APC.
Dungurawa said, “Definitely, we (NNPP) don’t have that interest, intention and we see them (APC party) as enemy of democracy. Look at where they led us to today in the country.
“They don’t know people are looking for situation to teach them a lesson, meaning the day of election. Everyday, there vote is diminishing. In 2015, they had almost 20 million votes. In 2019, they score 16 million votes while in 2023, it was 8 million votes.”
He clarified that the NNPP has no plans to affiliate with the APC, and that the party is only biding its time to hand over power to a new faction because it has let Nigerians down.
Meanwhile, Abdullahi Ganduje, who serves as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, issued a statement in which he asserts that Rabiu Kwankwaso, the head of the National Democratic Party of Nigeria (NNPP) and a former governor of Kano State, will join the ruling party.
In addition to this, he asserted that the New Nigeria Peoples Party is dead and will soon be buried.
Ganduje made this statement on Tuesday April 15 in Abuja, Nigeria, during a courtesy visit to the APC national secretariat by the Tinubu Support Group. He also stated that his leadership is open to the possibility of Kwankwaso rejoining the party.
Ganduje claimed that the purported anti-Tinubu alliance will soon disintegrate and its leaders will re-join the APC before 2027.
Ganduje said, “The NNPP is dead. And it will soon be buried very, very soon. I’m hoping that where we will put the dead body, the coffin has already been constructed.
“What remains now is to dig the grave. And already they are digging the grave very, very soon.
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“Even like that, the so-called NNPP national leader, he too, he says after losing everyone, he wants to come back to us, we will welcome him, because he’s coming back home.”