“We Will Field Kwankwaso As Our Presidential Candidate”, NNPP Insists

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP, will be fielding back to back Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as its Presidential hopeful come the 2027 General Election.

The Party has, also, warned that its followers will punish President Bola Ahmed Tinubu politically, for his meddlesomeness in the Emirate royal stool tussle at the appropriate time.

Hashim Suleiman Dungurawa, the Kano NNPP Chairman, on Sunday July 7, 2024, at an interactive session with the media in Kano insisted that Kwankwaso the Party’s Presidential Candidate in the 2023 elections remains the  only person that has the magic wand  to mount a competitive and meaningful  challenge for the presidency both within the party and in the country.

“We are going to field Kwankwaso as our Presidential Candidate in 202, because for now he stands as the only person who will make it to the Presidency.

He stands the chances of becoming the next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The NNPP Chairman, however, said President Tinubu has the chance of averting a political back lash if only he could  retrace his steps, by withdrawing his support for the Kano State deposed Emir, Aminu Ado Bayero, and remove him from Kano territory.

“If the President thinks he will use a few of his kinsmen in Kano and the alleged Bayero’s Yoruba lineage to continue to keep the deposed Emir Aminu Ado Bayero in the state, let him wait for 2027, we will show him that those people will not him” the NNPP chairman warned .

Dungurawa maintained that the President will be committing a huge political blunder, if he is of the belief that he would use the Emirate crisis as a bargaining chip in the count to the 2027 election.

He warned that President Tinubu’s stance in the on going royal crisis will surely count against his re election bid ,as far as Kano voters are concerned.

He added that the President’s militarization of the State, owing to his subtle backing of Emir Bayero has already secured for him a bad reputation among the people, who are eagerly waiting for a pay back time.