Kwankwaso purchased the NNPP nomination form for N30 million at the party’s National Headquarters in Abuja
By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
The landscape for the 2023 election has broadened with the entrance of former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso into the race.
Today, Kwankwaso took his presidential aspiration a step forward with the purchase of the nomination form of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), a party where he appears certain to clinch the ticket.
According to analysts, Kwankwaso’s massive influence in Kano makes him a major contender in the 2023 poll.
The former Kano governor purchased the party nomination form for N30 million at the party’s National Headquarters in Abuja in the presence of the party’s National Chairman, Prof. Rufai Alkali, the National Organising Secretary, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi and other members of the National Working Committee.
According to Kwankwaso, the NNPP has come to remedy the trot created by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
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The NNPP was an obscure party until Kwankwaso dumped the PDP and made it a platform with some A-list politicians joining it.
Kwankwaso joined the NNPP on the 29th of March, 2022 over what he described as ‘serious and irreconcilable difference.’
After defecting to the NNPP, Kwankwaso was named National Leader of the party and his loyalists clinched top positions of the new National Executive Committee effectively putting the party’s organs in his control.
