It’s the greatest political betrayal”, Kwankwaso speaks on defections from NNPP to APC
Former governor of Kano state and leader of Kwankwasoya movement, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has criticized politicians who leave their political party through which they were elected into political positions for another political party.
Kwankwaso stated that abandoning your political party for another despite winning your elections through the sacrifices and commitment of the members of the party, amounts to political betrayal and sin.
The former governor while speaking in Takai Local Government Area of Kano South in an event organized to welcome some defectors to the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) responded to recent lawmakers’ defections from the NNPP to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).
Recall that recently, Kano lawmakers comprising Senator Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, who represents Rano, Kibiya and Bunkure federal constituency in the Senate and Kabiru Alhassan Rurum who were elected on the platform of the NNPP left the party to join the APC.
Hence, Kwankwaso referred to their leaving the party that gave them electoral victories through the commitment of the party’s members and the Kwankwasoya movement as the greatest political sin.
He further warned the defectors to be wary of the Kwankwasoya movement, the resilience of the movement. He reminded them how the Kwankwasoya movement resolutely fought in the 2019 governorship election and also the 2023 general elections in which the NNPP won the Kano state governorship election and a number of seats at the national assembly.
Kwankwaso told the defectors not to think that the Kwankwasoya movement has been weakened because the movement is an ideological one which does not depend on financial inducements. He recounted effort by his political enemies in 2015 to destroy the Kwankwasoya movement but failed.
Kwankwaso’s recent outburst comes in between speculation about his political future. Reports claim that the former governor of Kano state is considering joining the APC with the Kano state governor and his Kwankwasoya movement. He had left the APC in 2018 after falling out with the then governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Ganduje. While leaving the APC in 2018, Kwankwaso cited internal party crisis in the state as the reason for his leaving. Kwankwaso would later join the NNPC to reposition the party for the 2019 governorship election in Kano state. However, the party failed to clinch the Kano state governorship election victory in 2019 as the incumbent governor, Abdullahi Ganduje was returned reelected. But the party was further repositioned in the state and strategically prepared for the 2023 governorships election in Kano state; eventually, the NNPP won the Kano state 2023 governorship election.
However, rumour has it that president Tinubu is wooing the Kano state politician to join the APC and become his running mate in 2027.
But the recent outburst from Kwankwaso over lawmakers defections from his party to the APC suggest that the speculation about his moving to the APC might be untrue.
