The leadership of the All Progressives Congress in Kano State on Monday expressed confidence that the New Nigeria People’s Party will be rejected by the people of Kano in 2027 following the ongoing political crisis in the state.
The APC’s statement was in response to an earlier media report credited to Kano NNPP Chairman, Hashimu Dungurawa, who claimed that President Bola Tinubu would be denied re-election due to his alleged interference in the Emirate tussle.
Dungurawa posited that the crisis arising from the battle over the Emirship seat would negatively affect Tinubu’s second-term ambition in the state.
However, the Kano chapter of the APC thinks otherwise.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, Kano APC Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, stated that the party is now more united than ever and will ensure Tinubu secures more votes than he did in the 2023 presidential election, despite the party’s failure to win the governorship poll.
Abbas emphasised that the people of Kano and leaders of thought in Northern Nigeria understand that the only interest of the Federal Government in the lingering Emirate crisis is to ensure the rule of law prevails for peace and tranquillity in the state.
The statement reminded the NNPP chairman and his group how they were roundly beaten in 2019 and narrowly escaped in 2023 based on vote statistics, despite having a presidential candidate from Kano state.
He said, “Contrary to what they think, it is the state ruling party and its national leader, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso that will suffer re-election in 2027 as a result the Emirship crisis. It is a public knowledge that while other state governors were commissioning one project or the other to mark their one year in office, the NNPP Kano state government was busy distracting the good people of Kano from his obvious failures through the contentious Emirate law as a tactic from his inadequacies in office.
“It is public knowledge that while other state governors were commissioning one project or another to mark their one year in office, the NNPP Kano state government was busy distracting the good people of Kano from its obvious failures through the contentious Emirate law as a tactic from its inadequacies in office.
“The people of Kano state whose houses were demolished and rendered homeless will not forget in a hurry. The people of Kano state whose sources of economic survival and businesses were destroyed will not vote NNPP again, among many other categories of people already badly affected by the current misfit government in Kano state.”
Abbas stated that bringing up the issue of the 2027 presidential election by the Kano NNPP chairman in the face of the apparent failure of the government was not only diversionary, adding “It is also an indication of a plan to plunder the resources of the state in the name of candidature.”
The APC chairman further stated that the consistent attack on the president was an indication that the crisis of confidence rocking the party and its embattled leader, Senator Rabi’u Kwankwaso, is making them jittery ahead of the 2027 election.
According to him, Kwankwaso would continue to lose the presidential election because he still doesn’t have the national outlook to contest the nation’s coveted seat.
“Kwankwaso got 1,454,649 total votes (at the last presidential poll), representing only 6.23 per cent, and most of them were from Kano. Media post-election analysis showed that Kwankwaso did not get up to 100,000 votes elsewhere aside from Kano.
“How come Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the opposition Labour Party from far away South East bested Kwankwaso in 13 northern states of Kaduna, Taraba, Borno, Gombe, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Plateau, Adamawa and Benue?” he queried.
On Sunday, Dungurawa cautioned President Bola Tinubu that his perceived stance and laxity over the Kano lingering Emirship tussle may negatively work against his second-term ambition in 2027.
Dungurawa while speaking with newsmen in his Lugard House office, noted that the ongoing Emirate crises are already giving the President bad names.
“Your perceived stance on the ongoing Kano Emirate tussle would surely work against you in the 2027 presidential polls because if you think you can use it to secure grounds in Kano when the chips are down it will dawn on you that you have made costly mistakes,” he said.
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