Tuesday, May 12, 2026 - Former presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has revealed why he decided to form an alliance with former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
Speaking during an interview on Arise Television’s Prime
Time programme on Monday, Kwankwaso said the North is returning to the
political approach adopted by Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello during their time.
According to him, during the Second Republic, former
President Shehu Shagari also worked closely with leaders from the South East.
The former Kano State governor stated that the people of the
South East are friends of the North, noting that the region wants to work
together with them.
“From my experience as former Deputy Speaker of the House of
Representatives, I had the opportunity to work with my speaker, and we worked
very well.
“Now we’re going back to what Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello
did during their time, and in the Second Republic, what Shehu Shagari and
others did with the leadership of the South East.
“But for me, it wasn’t just because we are going to the
South East. No, I looked around together with our leadership in the North to
ask who we think is capable, who can come and work honestly with us so that we
can move this country forward.
“And along the line, we realized that Peter Obi is at the
forefront of it, and that’s why we all accepted to work together,” he said.
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