· Reject APC, PDP to avert further disaster – Kwankwaso
As the 2023 campaigns reach febrile pitch, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, traded tackles on Sunday over the prospects of who wins next year’s presidential election.
The ruling APC has called on the NNPP’s presidential candidate, Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, to abandon his dream of becoming president on the new platform as it would be long in coming.
On the other hand, Kwankwaso thrashed the governing party and the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stating that both parties have failed the nation, and should no longer be trusted with power.
Speaking on the NNPP and its candidate, Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Hon. Yakubu Murtala Ajaka, urged the new party’s flagbearer to return to the APC which he helped build, noting that the APC remains the only platform through which he can actualize his dream of ever becoming president.
Ajaka in an interview on Sunday in Abuja said Kwankwaso does not stand any chance at the forthcoming general election.
“He contributed immensely to its success in 2015 and our leaders hope to repay him at the appropriate time but he cannot be outside to be a beneficiary in the nearest future,” Ajaka said.
He further added that, “so, that is why I said it is not too late for him to return to the APC. That is where he naturally belongs and have an assurance of becoming a president one day, and not his current sectional NNPP.
“Although, some people might be deceiving him by calling him Mr. President already but just one or two states in the North-west cannot make him a president. Kwankwaso needs a national party like APC to achieve his presidential ambition. So, I plead with him to do the needful before it is too late,” the APC spokesperson said.
In a related development, Kwankwaso called on the citizens of the country to reject the candidates of the two parties in the next year’s election.
“The way we are going is a one-way journey to disaster in the country,” he said.
The former governor noted that the two major political parties have exhausted their goodwill among Nigerians over their ineptitude and failure to manage the country’s resources and provide succour.
Kwankwaso, who was in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital on consultations, decried the rising insecurity, poverty, unemployment and inflation were enough reasons for the people to reject the ruling party.
Kwankwaso, who represented Kano Central in the Eighth National Assembly, said: “This our party was registered about 21 years ago, but in the last four months when I joined the party, so many people have joined us and that is why we have structures everywhere across the country.
“Not only that, so many people have even registered including in Ekiti state.
“We have seen the performance of the APC and PDP and all of us believe that they have failed the country woefully and nobody should expect anything from them again.
“These people in the two parties have failed and failed woefully, they have nothing to offer.
“Look at the road from Akure to Ado-Ekiti, it is in a very terrible and deplorable state.
“You go around any of these cities, Abuja and other areas, you hardly see anything happening, poverty is at the highest level in this country, insecurity also as its peak and we can’t continue like that, because the way we are going now is one-way to disaster in the country.
“So, the only way to avert that disaster is for Nigerians to go and sell the ideas of NNPP, which is a progressive party and vote for the party come 2023.”
