Friday, August 29, 2025 - The National Leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, says he has no plans to dump the party for another political party.
Kwankwaso made this clarification on Thursday at the party’s
National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting held in Abuja.
The former lawmaker stated that the NNPP was performing well
in Kano and other states, adding that they were very happy about that.
He acknowledged that many people attended the meeting to
hear from him following recent fake news reports that he would be making a
critical decision about his future with the NNPP.
“But let me take this opportunity to tell you that we have
our party, and we are comfortable. We are happy. We are ready to do whatever it
takes because we are not in a hurry,” he said.
The former Kano State Governor stressed that any negotiation
regarding the 2027 general election would be a collective decision, saying that
he believed in party supremacy.
“If there will be any negotiation, it will be collective. It
will not be only for the negotiators but for the entire members of this NNPP
family.
“The fact remains that there is nobody in Kwankwasia today
that I know, or even in NNPP, who is saying that, ‘yes, I want to go,” he
added.
He advised party members not to be swayed by the hype of
politicians defecting to any party.
Kwankwaso recalled how he lost the 2003 governorship
election in Kano, even as a sitting governor, due to public support for the
late former President Muhammadu Buhari.
He noted that he returned to power eight years later,
calling it a “good lesson for everybody.”
He said that Nigerians had already made up their minds about
the 2027 general election, adding that “reality will determine the people’s
votes.”
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