Kwakwanso Ready To Join APC, Demands VP Position- Sources

New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP Leader Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, says he’s prepared to join the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, but that the term of agreement must be clearly stated.

According to him, he was part of the founding fathers of the APC despite all the threats against him and his supporters by state controlled agencies such as the ICPC, DSS, Police and EFCC.

He however state that he’s not desperate to dump his party, the NNPP under which he contested the 2023 presidential election.

“If you said I should enter APC, I want to join APC, and I didn’t say I will not join APC even now, but for what position? he stated.

But, “we’re not in a hurry to leave the NNPP; we’re happy. However, if there is anyone who wants to work with us truthfully and will not abandon us as before, we are ready,” the NNPP strongman affirmed.

Sources informed the magazine that the negotiations between APC and the former Kano state has reached an advanced stage, but for the position of Vice President Kwakwanso is demanding, as condition for him to join the party.

Presidency strategists are said to be deeply confused over Kwakwanso’s demand as they carefully  weigh the fate of Vice President Kassim Shetima as Tinubu’s running mate in the 2027 election.

The magazine reported that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is wooing   Kwakwanso as part of his plan to consolidate his presence in the north ahead the 2027 election, after his popularity nosedived in the region due to allegations by some leaders from the areas, including Kwakwanso that his administration is not being fair to the region in terns of infrastructural distribution, which they said is more concentrated in the south where the president hailed from.

It was also reported that the recent resignation of Abudullahi Ganduje as APC National chairman is not unconnected with plan to bring Kwakwanso into the party, and as the moves by the ruling party intensified, watchers of politics in the country suggests that Tinubu is considering dumping Vice President Kassim Shetima for Kwakwanso, as his running mate in the presidential election slated for less than two years.