An ally of Rabiu Kwankwaso, the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Yusuf Sharada, says the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has been making efforts to get Kwankwaso to be on the side of President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election.
Sharada made this known on Tuesday, when he appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme.
According to him, the APC has lost its popularity in Kano, a state with high voting strength in Nigeria, and has since begun shopping for Kwankwaso, and his socio-political movement, Kwankwasiyya.
Sharada said, “They have been wooing Senator Kwankwaso to join them in the APC knowing his antecedents and his mass followership. Of course, it is their political permutations.
“Senator Kwankwaso stayed away from the APC because he is not in tandem with what they are doing as a government. They have been insisting that they want him to join them. Politics is about numbers and they know that he has the numbers, especially from Kano and the core North-Western part of the country.”
He added that the resignation of Kwankwaso’s political opponent Abdullahi Ganduje as APC National Chairman might be part of the permutation by the ruling party to snatch Kwankwaso from the NNPP.
“Maybe the APC has perfected their plans. They are looking for the numbers because of their anti-masses policies; the masses of Nigeria are no longer with them.
“So, they now want someone that the masses of this country have hope in to join them so that they have those numbers, especially from that part of the country,” he said.
Sharada, the National Coordinator of Project Save Nigeria, said Kwankwaso’s followers – members of the Kwankwasiyya Movement – are loyal to the ex-presidential candidate and await directives from him on the party to support in the 2027 presidential election.
