The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has stated that the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, is no longer active and will soon cease to exist.
According to Ganduje, NNPP is dead and Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the party in the 2023 election wants to come back to the APC.
The immediate past governor of Kano State spoke on Tuesday in Abuja, when he received the Tinubu Support Group, TSG, delegation at the party secretariat.
He said the ruling party would be ready to welcome Kwankwaso with open hands.
He said, “The NNPP is dead. And it will soon be buried very, very soon. I’m 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 like 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’s coming back home,” he said.
Meanwhile, Kwankwaso and the NNPP have on multiple occasions refuted claim of defection being speculated by the APC.
Speaking during the NNPP National Executive Council meeting in Abuja recently, Kwankwaso said it was Ganduje that would join him in NNPP and not the other way around.
Also in a recent interview with Arogidigba Global Journal, the National Publicity Secretary of the Kano State ruling party, Ladipo Johnson, said while the party was open to discussion on possible alignment, there was nothing on the table yet.