Former Governor of Kano State, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau’s alliance with Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso in the New Nigeria Peoples Party, (NNPP) has hit the rock as the former has abandoned their agreement
Though Shekarau is yet to disclose his new Party having dumped the APC earlier, ddressing his supporters in Kano on Monday, Shekarau took a swipe at Kwankwaso for not only betraying him but humiliating him.
While giving insight into the cause of the disagreement between him and the NNPP presidential flagbearer, Shekarau noted that his teaming supporters were left in a limbo as he was not given forms to contest his Senatorial seat.
He said on 5th May 2022 long before he and Kwankwaso joined NNPP, he personally met him at his country home and discussed extensively his decisions to follow him to his new party and he expressed deep happiness.
“And still on 11-5-2022 I still met Kwankwaso because since our last meeting, we were not able to meet, and I reminded him of a proposal I submitted to him during our last meeting.”
The proposal according to Shekarau was the list of my supporters who were seeking different political offices, and when I talked to Kwankwaso about it he said he was aware of it and definitely something would be done.
“Similarly, on 16-5-2022, Kwankwaso came to my house at about 9pm and we still discussed extensively the same issues he even called five people including Abba Kabir, Kawu Sumaila, Alhassan Rirum and two others and presented them to me as those to make the lists of contestants.
“During the meeting which led to my decamping, Kwankwaso came with my Senatorial Form alone and sneaked it to me telling me that I was the first to receive it and I asked him the ones for my supporters he said it would be done.
“Since then Kwankwaso kept deceiving me and only for him, to much later say we are late for my supporters to be on the lists, and there was nothing he could do”, he stated.
Shekarau said with all these and many more deceit, he had no place in the NNPP because his party politics always goes with his supporters and any attempt to throw them away would be vehemently rejected.