The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has declared the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) “dead” and said its burial is imminent.
Ganduje made the statement on Tuesday when he hosted members of the Tinubu Support Group (TSG) at the APC national secretariat in Abuja.
In a direct jab at the opposition party, Ganduje said the APC was witnessing an influx of politicians and lawmakers across the country, while the NNPP, once a rising force in Kano politics, was losing steam.
He hinted that the party’s 2023 presidential candidate and national leader, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, was already making moves to return to the APC.
“The NNPP is dead. And it will soon be buried very, very soon. I’m looking at where we will bury the 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,” Ganduje said.
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Speaking about Kwankwaso, the former Kano State governor stated, “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.”
The former Kano State governor, who was once a close political associate of Kwankwaso, referred to the expected defection as a “homecoming,” assuring that the APC would gladly welcome him back.
Although the two leaders have had a strained relationship in recent years, Ganduje expressed readiness to set differences aside, saying the APC remains open to receiving its former members.
Ganduje urged all APC support groups, particularly the Tinubu Support Group, to remain steadfast and continue supporting the administration, promising that they would be carried along in the party’s affairs.