Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso
NNPP expels Kwankwaso over alledged anti-party activity
Former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who bore the flag of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in the 2023 Presidential election has expelled from the party. Kwankwaso was expel by the NNPP highest body of authority, the National Executive Council, following his alleged refusal to appear before the party’s Disciplinary Committee investigating…
Ganduje, my ‘political boy’, Kwankwaso replies
The 2023 Presidential flagbearer of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, and former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has described his predecessor former governor Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje’s threat to slap him as an empty threat out of anger. Kwankwaso, who further described Ganduje as one of his “political boys,” responded to Ganduje’s threat…
”I could have slapped him,” Ganduje threatens violent encounter with Kwankwaso
The former Kano state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was furious on Friday while briefing the State House correspondents on his meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the security situation in Kano amid ongoing demolition of commercial properties whose lands were allegedlly assigned illegally by his administration to the privates owners. Ganduje said the action…
Ganduje unsettled, hires emissary to frustrate Tinubu, Kwankwaso talks
The outgoing Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has hired a top Northern politician to persuade the President-elect Bola Tinubu to stop further reconciliation and plan to work with an opposition, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. Tinubu met recently with the National Leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and 2023 Presidential candidate, Senator Kwankwaso…
Kano Emirate and inevitable correction of past errors
Astonishingly, a group of individuals have drawn out swords from the sheaths to initiate a fight against the idea of correcting the past in the interest of posterity.
Tinubu, Kwankwaso meet in France
President-elect Bola Tinubu has met with Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, one of his opponents in the February 25, 2023 elections, Daily Trust has reported. Kwankwaso, who ran on the platform of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), placed fourth in the election, winning only Kano State, a stronghold of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). According…
Ganduje to Kwankwaso: New emirates have come to stay
The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, was confident that the new emirates of Gaya, Rano, Karaye and Bichi he created have come to stay. Governor Ganduje’s assurance came days after the National Leader of the New Nigerian People Party (NNPP) Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, hinted at the plan by the incoming government of the Governor-elect…
NNPP national chair, Rufa’I Alkali resigns, cites need for restructuring
Prof. Rufa’I Ahmed Alkali has resigned his post as the National Chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP). Vougely cited the need for restructuring of the party for successes in the near future elections, Prof. Rufa’I said, ”Our great party, the New Nigeria People’s Party will require major and fundamental structural and systemic changes…
Between Obi and Kwankwaso, who’s the “local champion” now? By Farooq A. Kperogi
In the months that preceded the February 2023 presidential election, supporters of Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso both badgered me to recognize Kwankwaso’s matchless political might and affronted me for ranking Peter Obi above him. My unrelenting assertions, which have turned out to be accurate, that one of Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, or Peter Obi would emerge…