2023 Elections: After OBJ, Clark's Obi Endorsement, Kwankwaso Speaks on Defecting from NNPP, Visits PDP Gov

2023 Elections: After OBJ, Clark's Obi Endorsement, Kwankwaso Speaks on Defecting from NNPP, Visits PDP Gov

  • The presidential candidate of the NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has stated that a lot of things will change before the election
  • Kwankwaso on Wednesday, January 4, also denied rumours that he will defect from his party to another political platform
  • The former Kano state governor who described the talk as nonsense made it clear that it will never happen

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Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has given his voice to insinuations that he will be defecting from the party.

Speaking in Benin City, Edo state capital on Wednesday, January 4, during his visit to Governor Godwin Obaseki, Kwankwaso noted that soon things will begin to unfold in Nigeria before the presidential election.

Rabiu Kwankwaso
Kwankwaso has denied claims that he will defect from the NNPP soon (Photo: @KwankwasoRM)
Source: Twitter

Kwankwaso said the talk that he plans to join another party is nonsense because it will never happen, TheCable reports.

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Speaking on the current economic hardship in the country, the former Kano governor slams some politicians and some of his colleagues who are promising to continue with the legacies of the Buhari-led government.

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His words:

“It is absolute nonsense. It won’t happen.
“We believe in the NNPP; that in the next few weeks, many things will happen in this country.
“There are many people living in the air, they live there while we are here. They don’t know the level of poverty, anger in the country.
“Some of the candidates are even going around to say ‘we’ll continue the good work of this government’. Where is the good work?
“What Nigerians are saying is: who can save this country?”

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Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) presidential candidate, had said that he refused to step down for Peter Obi, his counterpart in the Labour Party (LP) because records show he is better than the former Anambra governor.

The former governor of Kano state said this in an exclusive interview published recently.

There were talks of possible alignments between the NNPP and the Labour Party earlier in 2022 but the move failed.

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