2023: Kwankwaso, NNPP, Send APC, PDP Into A Panic In Kano

Before now, the most popular political parties in Kano State were All Progressives Congress, (APC) and Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP) but with the defection of Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to the New Nigerian Peoples’ Party, (NNPP) the political equation in the  state appears to have changed in favour of the new party. 

Chief Boniface Aniebonam secured the recognition of NNPP at the return of democracy in the fourth republic. However, the party had been operating as a fringe political party until recently.

It would be recalled that the then national secretary of the party, Ambassador Agbo Gilbert Major, had, during a press briefing in Abuja two months ago, disclosed that NNPP was being repositioned, stressing that the party had opened talks with the former Kano State governor and his formidable Kwankwasiyya Movement.

In what could be described as gradual Kwankwasiyya Tsunami in Kano State, NNPP displaced PDP as the main opposition party in the state. With 17 out of the 40-member Kano State House of Assembly joining the NNPP, it looks like the state is about to change the face of its leadership.

The growing profile of the party in the state could be understood from the manner Governor Abdullahi Ganduje hurriedly canceled his senatorial ambition to make peace with Senator Jibrin Barau.  

 While explaining the reason for his sudden change of mind over his senatorial ambition, Ganduje stated that it was to avert the defection of aggrieved members   of the ruling APC to NNPP.

 Speaking on the new momentum in NNPP, its national chairman, Prof. Rufai Ahmad Alkali, said the party would shock all those that “take us for granted.” According to him,  NNPP is not part of the “deceptive zoning controversy midwifed by PDP and APC.”

Also, relishing the waves NNPP is making, its founder, Aniebonam, said God has decided to intervene in the affairs of the party, remarking that at last, Nigerians are beginning to see the difference..

The anticipation of keen watchers of Kano politics is that more prominent politicians may move into the party in the coming weeks even after the special convention of APC and PDP at the end of May.

 With Kwankwaso on the Presidential ballot of NNPP in next year’s election, the party might claim Kano and Kaduna States like PRP did in 1979 and 1983.

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