NNPP Leader Kwankwaso Gives Conditions For Possible Return To APC Party
By Passman Akpos
The NNPP leader stressed that any talks of a merger or return to the ruling party must guarantee clear benefits for his party.
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in the 2023 elections, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said his party is open to rejoining the All Progressives Congress (APC) but only under what he termed “strong promises.”
Kwankwaso made this known while receiving Buhari Bakwana, a former political adviser to ex-Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, alongside APC members from the 44 local government areas of Kano State, at his Miller Road residence in Kano.
He reminded the delegation that he and other political heavyweights were instrumental in the formation of the APC in 2013, enduring political persecution in the process.
He said nobody in the country would tell him about the burden they bore in creating the APC.
The NNPP leader stressed that any talks of a merger or return to the ruling party must guarantee clear benefits for his party.
He, however, noted that the NNPP remains open to fresh negotiations, but cautioned that the party would no longer allow itself to be “used and dumped.”
“Nobody in the country will tell me the burden we took in creating APC. We were the ones who led the creation of the party, and we were the first set of seven governors to declare support for it. ICPC, EFCC, and the police were all used against me then, just to stop our plans.
“Eight years of APC under the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari gave us nothing, not even appreciation. In PDP, we asked for just a zonal party chairman, but they refused. We left peacefully and today we are strong and have integrity.
“We are ready to join APC under strong conditions and promises. We will not allow anyone to use us and later dump us,” he maintained,” Kwankwaso added.
