From Romanus Ugwu
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Kano State chapter has predicted that the emirate crisis will definitely cost the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) the governorship in the 2027 general election in the state.
The APC state chapter also claimed that the emirship crisis will also turn against the ambitions of the 2023 NNPP presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, stressing that he even lacks the national spread to be Nigeria’s president.
In a statement by the APC state chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, the party argued that it is now more united and popular, poised to deliver triple the votes it received in the last presidential election in Kano state due to the current administration’s failures.
Kano NNPP chairman, Hashimu Dungurawa, had claimed that the lingering emirship tussle would negatively affect President Bola Tinubu’s second-term ambition in 2027.
However, Abbas, in his statement, maintained that, on the contrary, the state’s ruling party and its national leader, Kwankwaso, would be the ones to suffer the negative consequences of the ongoing emirship tussle.
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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 his clinching the nation’s presidency in 2027.
“Kwankwaso got 1,454,649 total votes, representing only 6.23 per cent, 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. Kwankwaso got 1.2 million or 19 per cent 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 in the statement.
Abbas further stressed 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 the rule of law prevails for peace and tranquillity in the most populated state.
“Aside from the widely acknowledged poor performance of the Governor Abba Yusuf-led NNPP government in Kano state in the last year, the party’s penchant for causing and sponsoring crises in a peaceful state he inherited and some of his anti-people policies are factors voters will consider in the next election.
“It is public knowledge that while other state governors were commissioning projects to mark their one year in office, the NNPP Kano state government was busy distracting the good people of Kano from his obvious failures through the contentious emirate law as a tactic to hide 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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