Chieftain of the Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has said the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Rabiu Kwankwaso, will not join the camp of President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 exercise because of the Federal Government’s role in the emir tussleship in Kano State.
Galadima, who appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, said Kwankwaso and the NNPP had been treated unfairly by the Tinubu administration.
The NNPP chieftain also accused the presidency of backing Aminu Ado-Bayero, the dethroned emir, against Muhammadu Sanusi II, the reinstated monarch.
“Why can’t we Nigerians look at issues dispassionately?” Galadima asked.
“How can Kwankwaso be a friend of the APC with what they are doing to us in Kano? Appointing two emirs in one town?
“There is a federal government emir and a state emir. Who’s got the responsibility to appoint emirs and pay them their salaries?
“They have their emirs. They have no fewer than 40 pickup vehicles filled with mobile police guarding the emir (Ado-Bayero).
“In some localities in Kano, people are being killed and their handsets taken while the police are tied down. Are they not ashamed?
“He is a federal government appointee because it is the federal high court that has ruled halfway to suggest so. I’m not making an accusation. I’m making a statement.”
Galadima insisted that his party would play a decisive role in 2027.
“We are the people who will determine who will be the president of Nigeria in 2027,” he said.
