Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), mentioned in view of the prevailing dispute over the Kano Emirates, the ruling New Nigeria Peoples Get together (NNPP) will endure re-election in 2027, and never President Bola Tinubu as speculated in some quarters.
The State Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Abbas, mentioned in an announcement that the get together is now extra united, fashionable and can ship triple of what it acquired within the final presidential election in Kano State attributable to failures of the present NNPP administration within the state.
Abbas mentioned opposite to a media report credited to the Kano State NNPP Chairman, Hashimu Dungurawa, it’s the ruling get together within the state and its nationwide chief, Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso that can endure the implications of the continued Emirship tussle negatively.
The Kano NNPP Chairman had mentioned the lingering Emirship tussle might negatively work towards President Tinubu’s second time period ambition in 2027.
However the Kano APC Chairman mentioned the declare by the NNPP’s state chairman was a sign of the get together’s frustration within the state and the nation’s political scene.
He added that the disaster of confidence rocking the factionalised opposition NNPP and its embattled chief, Senator Kwankwaso is embarrassingly exposing its dismal failure, whilst it’s boasting of clinching the nation’s presidency comes 2027.
In keeping with Abbas, Kwankwaso’s presidential debut in 2023 was intentionally meant to check his nationwide outlook, relevance within the scheme of issues, manipulate the best way for his son in-law to have his approach and likewise to reclaim Kano from the APC.
“Kwankwaso acquired 1,454,649 whole votes, representing solely 6.23 per cent, and most of them from Kano. In truth, media post-election evaluation confirmed that Kwankwaso didn’t stand up to 100,000 votes elsewhere other than Kano,” he mentioned.
Abbas identified that Kwankwaso acquired 1.2 million or 19 per cent of the whole votes within the North-west, his geo political zone, and virtually nothing in different areas of the nation.
“How come Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the opposition Labour Get together from far-off South East bested Kwankwaso in 13 northern states of Kaduna, Taraba, Borno, Gombe, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Plateau, Adamawa and Benue,” he queried.
The APC Chairman mentioned the individuals of Kano and leaders of thought within the Northern Nigeria understood that the one curiosity of the Federal Authorities within the lingering Emirate disaster in Kano is to make sure that the rule of regulation prevail for peace and tranquility within the largest populated state.
He reminded the NNPP Chairman and his group how they have been roundly crushed in 2019 and narrowly escaped in 2023 based mostly on votes statistics regardless of having a presidential candidate from Kano State.
Abbas mentioned, “Apart broadly acknowledged poor efficiency of Governor Abba Yusuf-led NNPP authorities in Kano State within the final one yr, the get together’s penchant for inflicting and sponsoring disaster in a peaceable state he inherited and a few of his anti-people’s insurance policies are components voters will think about within the subsequent election.
“It’s a public information that whereas different state governors have been commissioning one venture or the opposite to mark their one yr in workplace, the NNPP Kano State authorities was busy distracting the nice individuals of Kano from his apparent failures by means of the contentious Emirate regulation as a tactic from his inadequacies in workplace.”
He added that in 2027, the individuals of Kano State whose homes have been demolished and rendered homeless is not going to neglect in a rush, these whose sources of financial survival and companies have been destroyed and won’t vote NNPP once more, amongst many different classes of individuals already badly affected by the “present misfit authorities in Kano.”
Abbas said that citing the difficulty of 2027 presidential election by the Kano NNPP chairman within the face of an obvious failure of the federal government was not solely diversionary, however a sign of a plan to plunder the sources of the state within the title of candidature.
The APC chairman maintained that Kwankwaso would proceed to lose the presidential election as a result of he nonetheless doesn’t have the nationwide outlook to contest the nation’s coveted seat.
Abbas added that since his debut into the political scene, to him, every part must be about him and nothing else, and that the method additionally needed to be manipulated.
“When Kwankwaso contested the gubernatorial primaries in 1999 on the platform of Peoples Democratic Get together, alongside Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Mukthari Zimit and Alhaji Kabiru Rabi’u, he didn’t win the election. He needed to rig the election in Gabasawa with solely 86 votes, which Ganduje vehemently rejected. However the get together management needed to prevail on him to let it go,” he mentioned.
The APC Chairman said that the NNPP authorities in Kano State began on a flawed footing by going towards the very essence of governance, which is the individuals, and at all times needs to distract the individuals from its obvious failure.
“We’re utilizing this medium to guarantee our in a position and succesful President, together with the get together’s nationwide management that Kano State APC is now extra united, fashionable and is every day attracting politically helpful individuals into our fold. We’re prepared and can ship greater than triple of the votes we acquired in 2023 presidential election,” he boasted.
