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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The Presidential candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has explained why the party could not meet one of the requests made by the former Kano State Governor, Sen. Ibrahim Shekarau, when he joined the party.
In an interview with BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday, Kwankwaso said the rumour making the rounds that there is a rift between both of them is not true, adding that there is no crisis in the party.
The former Kano State Governor was reacting to the news that Shekarau may defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the alleged failure to fulfill the terms of agreement they reached prior to the senator’s defection to the NNPP.
“There is no agreement that was not fulfilled other than that of contestants. We have tried our best to honour the agreement but time couldn’t permit us,” the NNPP presidential candidate said.
According to him, most of the people brought by Shekarau to pick tickets for elective positions joined the NNPP at a time when INEC would not accept their candidacy.
He, however, said that if the party wins the 2023 presidential election and forms a government, Shekarau’s associates would get more prestigious positions.
Kwankwaso added that this would not cause any problem in the NNPP, stressing that there is no problem between him and Shekarau.