Kano Emirate tussle: APC mentions what will happen to NNPP amid Sanusi vs Bayero battle

The leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) will suffer electoral defeat in 2017 due to its bias toward the Kano Emirate crisis.

The Kano state chairman of the APC, Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, disclosed this in a statement Monday, in Abuja.

The party insisted that rather than the issue affecting President Bola Tinubu’s electoral chances, the NNPP would suffer the consequences, Vanguard reported.

The APC chieftain noted that the NNPP presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso lacks national appeal to be Nigeria’s president and in 2027, the APC will deliver triple of what it got in the last presidential election in Kano state due to failures of the current administration in the state.

Recall that on Sunday, July 7, the chairman of the NNPP in Kano state, Hashim Dungurawa, alleged that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was destabilising the state by trying to impose the 15th Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, on the emirate because they share the same Yoruba background.

Reacting to the claim, the Kano APC chairman Abbas said the claim by the NNPP state chairman, Dungurawa was an indication of the party’s frustration in the state and the nation’s political scene.

The APC state chairman said the crisis of confidence rocking the factionalized opposition NNPP and its embattled leader, Kwankwaso, is embarrassingly exposing its dismal failures, even as it is boasting of clinching the nation’s presidency comes 2027.

Alhaji Abbas added:

Earlier, TimesNow.com.ng reported that Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Thursday, July 4, gave Justice Farouk Lawan Adamu and Justice Zuwaira Yusuf a two-day ultimatum to resign their appointments.

This came after Governor Abba Yusuf appointed Adamu as the chairman of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry for the recovery of misappropriated Public Properties and Assets and Yusuf as the chairman Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate Political Violence and Missing Persons.

Source: TimesNow.com.ng