National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has said that Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the 2023 election, is on the verge of returning to the APC.
Ganduje made the statement on Tuesday at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja while addressing members of the Tinubu Support Groups (TSG).
Describing the former Kano governor as politically isolated, Ganduje likened him to “a general who is wandering in the wilderness after losing his foot soldiers in the battle front.”
The former two-term governor of Kano emphasized that Kwankwaso’s influence has significantly declined, pointing to the recent wave of defections by his loyalists in both Kano State and the National Assembly.
“That party called the NNPP is dead and it will soon be buried. The coffin where we would put the dead body of the party has already been constructed,” Ganduje declared.
He went further to say, “What remains of the party now is to dig the grave and they are already digging it. I assure you that their Senators, House of Representatives, state Assembly members, their SSG all have resigned and are all coming to the party soon.”
According to Ganduje, Kwankwaso is among those seeking a political return to the APC fold.
“Even the so-called leader of the party (Kwankwaso), he too after losing everywhere wants to come back to APC. We will welcome him when coming home after losing his foot soldiers,” he added.
Ganduje also dismissed ongoing efforts by opposition politicians to form a coalition, asserting that no other platform offers better prospects for Nigerians than the APC.
“The ongoing gang-up by a coalition of politicians will fail,” he said, reinforcing his belief in APC’s continued dominance in the national political terrain.
