The All Progressive Congress APC) on Thursday warned Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso that it will not allow the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to manipulate votes in Kano state in the 2027 general election, as it did to defeat APC in the last election.
Kano State APC chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, described as laughable the claim by Kwankwaso that he would significantly reduce the votes of APC in Kano in the 2027 polls.
Abbas was reacting to Kwankwaso’s declaration while receiving some former councillors and senior special advisers, who served under Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, during a meeting in his Kano residence with stakeholders from Tsanyawa Local Government Area.
Kwankwaso was quoted as saying: “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.”
In his reaction, the APC chairman told Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano, “to stop daydreaming and channel his energies towards reclaiming his NNPP membership.”
He described Kwankwaso as “a political refugee who has chosen to cling to Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf like a leech in a futile attempt to regain relevance in the scheme of things in the country.”
The APC warned Kwankwaso and the NNPP that it would not allow a repeat of the “vote manipulation and allocation during the 2023 general elections that created the impression that the NNPP is well-rooted in Kano State.”
Kwankwaso has also stated that his party “NNPP achieved this remarkable feat despite being a new political platform coupled with the late start of its campaign.”
But Abbas said: “Our teeming supporters in the APC 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.”
The APC chairman assured that “the party (APC) is already waiting to reclaim the state and save Kano people from the undue influence of Kwankwaso.”