Kwankwaso will contest for president in 2027 – NNPP
*Says APC just too desperate about Tinubu's re-election *We cannot trust Kwankwaso and NNPP, they are acting Tinubu's script to split Northern Nigerian votes but will fail - Concerned Citizen
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“What I can assure you is that anything short of joining this coalition movement to unseat Tinubu will be the end of political popularity for Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso because such attitude will be viewed as sabotaging the collective interest by which majority of Nigerians are resolving to free their country from the authoritarian leadership of Tinubu. So, for Kwankwaso, he is either with the coalition or he is with Tinubu because there will be no voting for NNPP in 2027,. It will be ADC or any party the coalition so chooses” he said.
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has finally disclosed what is probably the reason its national leader, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, is foot-dragging about joining the opposition coalition movement ongoing in the country.
It said the former Kano State governor will contest for the 2027 presidential election, even as it dismissed claims that the former senator and 2023 presidential candidate of the party, is defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
These were contained in the words of Prince Nweze Onu, the NNPP National Vice Chairman (South East), who said the rumours were baseless and driven by social media speculation.
According to him, “Talks about Kwankwaso moving to the APC only exist on social media.
“I am sure you know that the use of artificial intelligence and other instruments of social media is very dangerous and makes people spin a lot of narration, especially when it comes to politics.”
Onu also denied that Kwankwaso’s recent visit to the presidential villa had anything to do with defection plans.
“No, he didn’t go for any visitation. He only went there for a programme. The only reason both of them were seen together was because the programme was held at the Presidential Villa,” he said.
However, during the visit on July 21, 2025, Kwankwaso had told state house correspondents that his discussion with President Bola Tinubu “centred on politics and governance,” adding that he “might work with Tinubu.”
The statement has continued to fuel speculation about a potential alliance ahead of the 2027 elections.
Despite that, Onu said Kwankwaso’s recent criticisms of the Tinubu administration were justified.
“He is right. It is a clear manifestation, and that has been the reason we in the opposition have to talk. Somebody must make the president realise what he’s doing,” he said.
Onu also confirmed that Kwankwaso will contest the 2027 presidential election.
“Why not? That is what we are saying. For as long as he is a Nigerian and he meets the statutory requirement to aspire to vote and be voted for, he is good to go,” he said.
He accused the APC of being overly fixated on the 2027 race.
“They are just too desperate. Their attempt to do too much is what is pushing them into depression,” he said.
In the meantime, an anonymous respondent asked, to react to the comment by NNPP’s statement that Kwankwaso will however work with Tinubu, said, “We cannot trust him. He has been foot-dragging about joining the opposition coalition so much that Jaafar Jaafar, his former aide and publisher of Daily Nigerian, raised an alarm that his loyalists were ready to join other opposition groups in the coalition if he didn’t make decision on time.
“What I can assure you is that anything short of joining this coalition movement to unseat Tinubu will be the end of political popularity for Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso because such attitude will be viewed as sabotaging the collective interest by which majority of Nigerians are resolving to free their country from the authoritarian leadership of Tinubu. So, for Kwankwaso, he is either with the coalition or he is with Tinubu because there will be no voting for NNPP in 2027,. It will be ADC or any party the coalition so chooses” he said.
