The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State says the ruling New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and its presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, will suffer the consequences of the ongoing emirship crisis.
The party said President Bola Tinubu will not suffer the consequences of the dispute, as earlier predicted by the NNPP on Sunday.
The APC state chairman Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas made the prediction in response to a report attributed to NNPP Kano state chairman Hashimu Dungurawa suggesting that the Emirship crisis will impact Tinubu’s re-election in 2027.
Grassroots Parrot reported how the Kano NNPP chairman said on Sunday that the lingering emirship tussle will negatively work against President Bola Tinubu’s second-term ambitions in 2027.
Reacting on Monday in Abuja, Abbas, in a statement, said the claim by the NNPP’s state chairman was an indication of the party’s frustration in the state and the nation’s political scene.
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Abbas noted that the crisis of confidence rocking the factionalized opposition NNPP and its embattled leader, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, is exposing its dismal failure despite bragging to win the nation’s presidency in 2027.
The APC chieftain noted that Kwankwaso’s presidential debut in 2023 was deliberately intended to test his national outlook, remain relevant in the scheme of things, manipulate the way for his son-in-law, and to reclaim Kano from the ruling APC.
According to Abbas, “Kwankwaso got 1,454,649 total votes, representing only 6.23 percent, and most of them were from Kano,” he said. “In fact, media post-election analysis showed that Kwankwaso did not get up to 100,000 votes elsewhere aside from Kano.”
Abbas pointed out that Kwankwaso got 1.2 million, or 19 percent, of the total votes in the north-west, his geopolitical zone, and almost nothing in other regions of the country.
He queried how Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the opposition Labour Party from the faraway South East, bested Kwankwaso in the 13 northern states of Kaduna, Taraba, Borno, Gombe, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Plateau, Adamawa, and Benue.
The APC Chairman said the people of Kano and leaders of thought in Northern Nigeria understood that the only interest of the federal government in the lingering Emirate crisis in Kano was to ensure that the rule of law prevailed for peace and tranquility in the largest populated state.
The statement reminded the NNPP Chairman and his group how they were roundly beaten in 2019 and narrowly escaped in 2023 based on vote statistics despite having a presidential candidate from the state.
The statement added that in 2027, “the people of Kano state whose houses were demolished and rendered homeless will not forget in a hurry; the people of Kano state whose sources of economic survival and businesses were destroyed will not vote NNPP again, among many other categories of people already badly affected by the current misfit government in Kano state.”
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The APC chieftain stated that bringing up the issue of the 2027 presidential election by the Kano NNPP chairman in the face of an apparent failure of the government was not only diversionary but an indication of a plan to plunder the resources of the state in the name of candidature.
He asserted that Kwankwaso would continue to lose the presidential election because he still doesn’t have the national outlook to contest the nation’s covert seat.
Abbas added that since his debut in the political scene, everything has to be about him and nothing else, and that the process also had to be manipulated.
The APC Chairman stated that the NNPP government in Kano State started on the wrong footing by going against the very essence of governance, which is the people, and always wants to distract the people from its apparent failure.
Assuring President Tinubu of victory in the state come 2027, Abbas said the party is now more united and popular and will deliver triple of what it got in the last presidential election in Kano state due to the failures of the current administration in the state.