‘The Way the North Operates Politically Is Not Clear to Other Regions’ – Kwankwaso

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has disclosed that the way the North operates politically is not clear to people from the other region.

He stated that some northern politicians are pretending to be in support of the southern presidency but working for a northern president to emerge in 2023.

The former Kano State Governor alleged that a particular northern politician is pretending to be supporting Peter Obi, the presidential candidate on the platform of the Labour Party in order to ruin NNPP’s chances in the 2023 election.

Kwankwaso made the claim during an interview on Channels TV’s ‘Sunday Politics’

According to him, a competent source within the ranks of the Labour Party informed him that Obi is discussing with a leader of the PDP and Atiku’s crony, whose objective is allegedly to dissuade Obi from entering into an alliance with him in order to weaken NNPP’s chances at the 2023 polls.

“I believe that it is likely that we are going to meet and discuss the issue of coming together to work as a family so that Nigerians will have an alternative to the PDP and of course the APC.

“I believe that it will happen but I believe also that there are some challenges that we are having, especially from the side of the Labour Party itself because there are so many influences, some positive and even the negative sides.

“We have a situation today where there are some people who are in other parties who are also influencing the decision of that party (Labour Party) which I believe is not good for the party.

“I am just reading on social media and even from people very close to the party that the presidential candidate (Obi) is very close to one of the leaders of the PDP which we are trying to verify.

“But I think the source is very genuine that he (Obi) is in contact with him (the PDP leader), while he (the PDP leader) is in the PDP supporting the presidential candidate from the north in that the party (Atiku), and of course he is saying that the presidency must go to the south in the other party (Labour Party) that is in our alliance. And that is really (aimed at) weakening our own party,” claimed Kwankwaso.

While refusing to mention the name of the PDP leader allegedly in bed with Obi, Kwankwaso suggested that the person is a northern politician ‘pretending’ to be in support of the South East to produce the country’s next president.

“You know in this part of the country (North), we have the person the people are talking about in the social media, who pretends to be very close to Peter Obi himself, while everybody knows he has a political party (and) he is promoting the person in the political party in the PDP, yet pretending to say, ‘look we want the president to come from the South East.’

“You see the idea is, if this marriage works, with Obi as the presidential candidate, the implication is that his own candidate in the PDP will be the biggest beneficiary because the way the North operates politically is not very clear to many people.”