From Desmond Mgboh, Kano
Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has predicted that the emirate crisis would cost the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) the governorship re-election ticket in the 2027 general election in the state.
The state chapter of the party equally claimed that the emirship crisis would also turn out against the ambition of the 2023 NNPP presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, stressing that he lacks the national spread to be Nigeria’s president.
In a statement by the state chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, the party argued that it was now more united, and popular to deliver triple of what it got in the last presidential election due to failures of the current administration in the state.
The Kano NNPP chairman, Hashimu Dungurawa, had claimed that the lingering emirship tussle would negatively work against President Bola Tinubu’s second term ambition in 2027.
But Abbas, in his statement, maintained that on the contrary, the state’s ruling party and its national leader, Kwankwaso, would be the one to suffer the negative consequences of the ongoing emirship tussle.
He further argued that the crisis of confidence rocking the factionalised opposition NNPP and its embattled leader, Kwankwaso, is embarrassingly exposing its dismal failure, and eclipsing the possibility of him clinching the nation’s presidency in 2027.
“Kwankwaso got 1,454,649 total votes, representing only 6.23 percent, and most of them from Kano. In fact, media post-election analysis showed that Kwankwaso did not get up to 100,000 votes elsewhere, aside from Kano. He got 1.2 million or 19 percent of the total votes in the North West, his geopolitical zone, and almost nothing in other regions of the country.
“How come Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the opposition Labour Party from far away South East bested Kwankwaso in 13 northern states of Kaduna, Taraba, Borno, Gombe, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Plateau, Adamawa and Benue?” he queried.
Abbas added that the people of Kano and leaders of thought in Northern Nigeria understood that the only interest of the Federal Government in the lingering emirate crisis in Kano is to ensure that rule of law prevails so that there will be peace and tranquility in the state.
“Aside from widely acknowledged poor performance of Governor Abba Yusuf-led NNPP government in Kano State in the last one year, the party’s penchant for causing and sponsoring crisis in a peaceful state he inherited, and some of his anti-people’s policies, are factors that voters will consider in the next election.
“It is a public knowledge that while other state governors were commissioning one project or the other to mark their one year in office, the NNPP-led government in Kano State was busy distracting the good people of Kano from the governor’s obvious failures through the contentious emirate law as a tactic from his inadequacies in office.
“The people of Kano State whose houses were demolished and rendered homeless, will not forget in a hurry. The people of Kano State whose sources of economic survival and businesses were destroyed will not vote NNPP again, among many other categories of people already badly affected by the current misfit government in Kano State,” the statement read.
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