Friday, October 4, 2024 4:33 pm
*As he welcomes over 963 APC members to NNPP in Kano
By Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano
The National Leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has declared that only his party can remedy the hardship Nigerians face.
On Thursday, the NNPP presidential candidate in the 2023 general election urged Nigerians to pitch their tent with his party to overcome the biting hardship and what he described as “maladministration” of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).
Kwankwaso who welcomed over 963 APC leaders and members from Dala Local Government Area, Kano, into NNPP, insisted that APC has lost focus and must be shown the way out in 2027.
He expressed optimism that NNPP will record 100 percent victory in the forthcoming Local Government elections in the state.
The former Governor of Kano state who renewed his intention to re-contest the presidential election in 2027 boasted that his party has everything it takes to bring about the desired change Nigerians need.
According to him, even though Nigerians are facing serious hardship due to what he described as bad leadership by the APC-led government at the federal level, Kano state is making a difference through the Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf-led NNPP government which is recording uncommon achievements in both infrastructural and human development.
Kwankwaso spoke at his Miller/Club Road mansion, where he received the entire leadership structure of APC in Dala which collapsed into NNPP.
He said: “I thank the people of Kano, including the women and youths for their continued support of our great party, the NNPP. Today is a historic day as over 963 members of APC led by the party chairman joined our great party.
” We are happy that people have now seen the light. We are so glad that people have realized the truth, and they have joined us.
” We are happy that Dala is now fully Kwankwasiyya because all the who-is-who in politics there have joined NNPP.
“They have now realized their mistakes, and we are welcoming them with open hands since they have found solace in NNPP.”
Kwankwaso insisted that “APC has lost focus, as Nigerians suffer unemployment, inflation caused by subsidy removal.
” This is the time for change. I am calling on our people in Kano, and all over northern Nigeria, and indeed, all Nigerians to have a rethink.
“This is the time for us to take our destinies into our own hands. I call on you all to join NNPP for a better Nigeria.”
The spokesperson of the decampees and the chairman of APC in Dala Local Government, Alhaji Sabiu Bala Maialawayyo, thanked Kwankwaso for welcoming them into NNPP and promised to work hard for the continuous progress and development of NNPP.
He described Kwankwaso as a good leader and promised that they would follow him wherever he goes, insisting that Kwankwaso shall become, “the landlord in Aso Rock come 2027.”
Alhaji Sabiu further expressed confidence in NNPP’s ability to bring about meaningful reforms in Kano state, and Nigeria if Kwankwaso eventually becomes President.
The defectors included former councilors from 12 wards in the Dala Local Government Area.
They cited the need for progressive change as their reason for joining the NNPP.
The latest defection followed the cross-carpetting of over 1000 APC members in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area into NNPP.
That event came after Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf received over 30 political leaders from other opposition parties into NNPP at Government House penultimate week.
The defections are coming ahead of the forthcoming Local Government elections in Kano slated for October 26.
(Kwankwaso welcoming the decampees at his Miller Road residence)
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