PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the 2023 general elections, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has stated that he and his supporters were not in a hurry to dump the party, despite overtures from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to Kwankwaso: “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?”
“In this country, who will tell us about the struggle to establish the APC? We are the ones who established the party. We are the leaders of the APC.
“We challenged the federal government then and faced many threats from the EFCC, ICPC, Police, SSS and others.
“If you say we should join APC, we agree to it, but tell us what the NNPP will get. Give us the answer and we will agree to join. But don’t take us back to when we were neglected.
“During the APC’s eight years under (late former President Muhammadu) Buhari, we were not given anything, not even a ‘thank you,’ because our faction of the PDP didn’t start with them.
“When we left for PDP, even PDP couldn’t give us a zonal chairman. They thought if we left, we would enter a bush and die. After we left the party, we gained value, and now we have value.
“Whoever you are, if you mention Nigerian politicians, you must mention Kwankwaso.
“When I was in the APC or PDP, they didn’t value me. We were working for irresponsible people, and when they won elections, they did not consider us or value us.
“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.
“Even if the PDP comes back and says they made a mistake and will do this and that, let’s make promises where everyone can see them.”
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