The Kano State All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed former Kano State Governor and 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, for boasting that he would reduce the votes of the APC in the State in the 2027 presidential election to a paltry 15,000.
Speaking through its State party chairman, Prince Abdullahi Abbas, the APC urged Kwankwaso to stop daydreaming, and instead, channel his energies towards reclaiming his membership of the NNPP.
Kwankwaso had, while playing host to some stakeholders from Tsanyawa Local Government Area, at his Kano residence on Christmas day – Wednesday December 25 – noted that the hard work of his team in last year’s elections, “sidelined the Peoples Democratic Party to struggle to secure only 15,000 votes in Kano,” but that
“now, it’s our turn to diminish APC’s influence. We will work tirelessly to ensure their votes are reduced to less than 15,000 in Kano come 2027.”
But APC said it would not allow a repeat of what it called the “vote manipulation and allocation” that created the impression that the NNPP is well rooted in Kano State in the 2023 general election.
While describing Kwankwaso as a “political refugee” who has chosen to cling to Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State like a “leech in a futile attempt to regain relevance in the scheme of things in the country,” the APC said: “Our teeming supporters have no cause to worry about Kwankwaso who has been booted out of NNPP due to his cluelessness and self-centeredness. We expect Kwankwaso to keep wondering why he has become a wanderer in the political terrain.
“He ran away from APC because he couldn’t fit into our progressive ideals. His over-bloated ego and domineering posture forced him to abandon the PDP and he has now become a political refugee because the NNPP refused to accommodate him.
“We are already waiting in the wing to not only reclaim Kano State but save the people of the State from the undue influence of Kwankwaso.”
