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Kwankwaso Sets Conditions for APC Return, Demands Recognition for NNPP Movement
Former Kano State Governor and the National leader of the All Progressives Congress (NNPP) Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has expressed willingness to return to the APC, but only if there are clear agreements ensuring recognition for his political movement.
Speaking during a meeting with NNPP stakeholders in Kano on Wednesday, Kwankwaso recalled the role he played in the formation of the APC, stressing that he and his allies paid the price to build the party but were sidelined throughout its eight years in power under President Muhammadu Buhari.
Kwankwaso told NNPP stakeholders in Kano that he played a crucial role in forming the APC, but felt betrayed as he and his allies were ignored during the party’s eight years in power under President Buhari.
He boasted that as founders of the APC, nobody in Nigeria can measure the hardship and difficulty they incurred during the formation of the party.
“We were in the leadership then, because we had more experience understanding how the federal government operates unlike those from the ACN and CPC who had no idea what was taking place in government then.”
“We stood firm for the course and faced the federal government then facing all sots of problems. There were even Assembly members that were arrested from here (Kano) and locked up in Abuja” Kwankwaso lamented
“I personally faced all sorts of attacks using the EFCC, ICPC, Police, DSS and others, all because of APC. We are the founders of APC, we led everything, we stated from the Eagle Square and went round seven states then. But when the APC came to power, they gave us nothing not even a thank you because our faction of the PDP didn’t start with them.”
Kwankwaso lamented that all the struggles he went through have passed “and today some people are benefiting from all the struggle we did when men were men.”
“We will accept to join the APC if invited, but we must know what the NNPP will benefit from when we join. What will be the position of our Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf?
“We also have Senators and Reps as well as others holding positions in the state government, when we join the APC why will be their fate? Provide us with the answers.
“If you say I should go back to the APC, I’m willing to re-join, and I didn’t say I won’t join even now, but on what terms?” Kwankwaso asked.
“When I was with the APC and PDP, they didn’t respect my integrity; we only worked for ungrateful people who never appreciated what we did. We worked for them, they won elections, and dumped us aside we’re all witnesses to this.”
Now that we’re settled and not in a hurry to leave the NNPP, however, if there are those who want to work with us in total honesty and transparency, such that we won’t be treated the way we were in the past, we’re ready for it.” he stated.