The rumoured defection of Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, a chieftain of the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP), has further garnered momentum.
ENigeria News reports that news of Kwankwaso’s defection to the ruling party was on Tuesday predicted by the national chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who also disclosed that three members of the House of Assembly, Senator Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, Hon. Kabiru Alhassan Rurum, and Aliyu Sani Madakin Gini of the NNPP, upon a crucial meeting with him at his Abuja residence, have concluded plans to defect to the ruling party.
Ganduje, also a former governor of Kano State, was for many years an ally of Kwankwaso until they parted ways some years ago.
The APC chairman spoke on Tuesday in Abuja when he received a delegation from the Tinubu Support Group (TSG) and said:
“The NNPP is dead, and it will soon be buried. Very, very soon. I am looking at where we will bury the body. The coffin has already been constructed. What remains now is to dig the grave, and already, they are digging the grave. Very, very soon.
“Even at that, the so-called NNPP national leader, he too, he says after losing everyone, he wants to come back to us. We will welcome him because he is coming back home.”
ENigeria News reports that Kwankwaso’s rumoured defection, as well as the expected defection of Governor Uba Sanni and the three House of Assembly members, will further give Tinubu an edge over the opposition, as well as the rumoured coalition of political parties being championed by Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, who are still trying to figure out their way forward.
