The National Chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Prof. Rufai Alkali, has quashed insinuations that the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 election, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso is working for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
It was reported that speaking with journalists in Abuja at the weekend, Prof. Alkali said Kwakwanso, a former governor of Kano State, has what it takes to win the 2023 Presidential election.
Alkali, a one-time presidential adviser on political affairs to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, who noted that the NNPP Presidential candidate has a better political credentials than his opponents having been governor, Senator, Minister and Deputy Speaker House of Representatives, said that the presidential hopeful is on the race because of his desire to change the cause of things in the country and not for personal aggrandisement.
In a similar vein, Kwankwaso said that he would not forego his presidential ambition for anyone, including the presidential flagbearer of the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and that of the ruling APC, Tinubu.
Kwankwaso insisted that his party, the NNPP, is popular across Nigeria, and “we are sure of victory at the polls”.
