Kwankwaso slams defectors into APC, reintegrates Sumaila’s supporters into NNPP
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By KEMI KASUMU and OUR REPORTER
“There is no argument about the fact that Supreme Court has ruled on it. Once you as lawmaker unjustifiably, you also vacate your seat along with that action. If the Senate President God’swill Akpabio fails to let that happen now, or he himself fails to quit because they have the Federal Might being wrongly applied currently, tomorrow will com and they shall be brought back to answer for their breaches of the Constitution of the country,” one of the warned
The attempt of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to extend what has generally been condemned as a drive to one-party state system has failed in Kano State as New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) senator, Sulaiman Kawu Sumaila, who decamped to his All Progressives Congress (APC) on same plot ostensibly orchestrated by the president, could not to deliver the numbers of his supporters to move with him.
The supporters in their hundreds declined to follow him and instead returned to the NNPP realigning and pledging their allegiance to the leadership of Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and government of Abba Kabir Yusuf as an institution of their greatly performing party.
The group, led by Muntari Ibrahim Faruruwa, was received by the leader of the Kwankwasiyya political movement, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, at his residence in Kano.
The supporters, from Takai Local Government Area, informed Senator Kwankwaso that they refused to join the APC with Senator Sumaila, citing their commitment to the ideals of the Kwankwasiyya movement and the NNPP.
They expressed their desire to contribute to the development of Kano State and propagate the movement’s ideals.
Senator Kwankwaso welcomed the returnees and congratulated them on their decision.
He emphasized that the Kwankwasiyya movement is about empowering people, especially youths and women, through education and other means to enable them to become self-reliant and develop themselves and society.
He prayed that other members who had left the movement would return home to contribute to the progress and development of Kwankwasiyya and Kano State.
Senator Rufa’i Sani Hanga, NNPP Kano Central, described Senator Kwankwaso as a progressive leader who had always championed the upliftment of ordinary people.
He congratulated the former Senator Sumaila supporters for taking the wise decision to return to the Kwankwasiyya movement and the NNPP fold.
The reintegration of Senator Sumaila’s supporters into the NNPP and the Kwankwasiyya movement is seen as a boost to the party’s strength and morale in Kano State.
The move demonstrates the party’s commitment to its ideals and its willingness to welcome back members who share its vision for the state and the country.
In the meantime, some Nigerians sympathetic with NNPP and the Yusuf-led government of Kano State have described the failure of Sumaila to escape to APC with his NNPP support base after doing the same with mandate of the party as a setback for the Tinubu-led party in the state.
They, however, urged Kwankwaso, Yusuf and the NNPP to join hand retrieve their mandate from Kawu Sumaila because it was NNPP’s mandate not his.
“There is no argument about the fact that Supreme Court has ruled on it. Once you as lawmaker unjustifiably, you also vacate your seat along with that action. If the Senate President God’swill Akpabio fails to let that happen now, or he himself fails to quit because they have the Federal Might being wrongly applied currently, tomorrow will com and they shall be brought back to answer for their breaches of the Constitution of the country,” one of the warned
