SDP Is A ‘Branch’ Of APC, Kwakwanso Will Not Join- NNPP Chieftain Galadima

The 2023 Presidential candidature of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP Rabiu Kwakwnso will not defect to the Social Democratic Party, SDP, according to Buba Galadima, a chieftain of the party.

Galadima, a close ally of the former presidential candidate of the party and former governor of Kano state disclosed that the SDP is just an extension of the ruling All Progressives Party, APC, and that his party and supporters will have nothing to do with it.

His comment comes after Sule Lamido, a former governor of Jigawa state said he was not prepared to join the SDP, saying it’s an insult for him to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The NNPP chieftain spoke on Arise TV programme, ‘The Morning Show’ on Tuesday, saying the plan of the promoters of the SDP is to ‘decimate’ the opposition.

“The SDP is simply a fictionalised branch of the APC. How many non-APC members have defected to the SDP? The APC’s character is to decimate opposition. We must start opposing based on principles, even if it means standing alone. The NNPP is a party of principle and will not enter into coalitions for their own sake,” Galadima said.

His remark comes days after  Nasir El Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna state, defected to the SDP from APC, he also called on key opposition leaders in the country such as the 2023 PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Kwakwanso to join him in his new party, to wrestle power from the ruling party.

The magazine reported that the former governor defected from the ruling party last week following months of attacking President Tinubu and APC. El rufai’s critics insist that his fight with the party, and his eventually defection may not be unconnected with his failure to make President Tinubu’s cabinet as a minister.

Following his defection to SDP, the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, appealed to opposition leaders in the country to for a coalition to oust President Tinubu from power, urging them not to form a new party as has been speculated in some qaurters.

“My wish and prayers are that Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Rotimi Amaechi, Rauf Aregbesola and all opposition leaders come and join SDP, not to do a merger or to register a new political party,” he said.