AbdulMajid Dan Bilki Kwamanda, a friend of President Muhammadu Buhari, has told President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to say no to rumours that Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is secretly trying to get him to leave the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and join the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Kwamanda warned Tinubu that getting Kwankwaso into the APC would cause major fighting among party members.
In response to rumours that Kwankwaso and the President-elect had hidden talks to try to bring the former Kano Governor back to the party, he said, “We will fight to the end to make sure this move doesn’t happen to the party.”
Speaking to journalists at the NUJ Secretariat in Kano, he said that the party and people in the North had done their best for Tinubu to become president, so he needed to pay them back. He also said that politics in the North is different and hard for one person to control.
He said that as an expert, he knows Kwankwaso is selfish and always joins a group or party for himself, not for the good of the people, and that he will not help the APC.
He says that getting Kwankwaso in means abandoning the Northerners, which will not help Tinubu in the future.
He said that the reports that Kwankwaso’s coming would hurt the chances of Vice President-elect Senator Kashim Shettima were not true. He also said that Shettima is much better than Kwankwaso in national politics.
When he talked about the 10th National Assembly, he said that only the Northwest deserved to have the Senate President, and that the South-South had no right to complain about the choice because they didn’t work together to make the new government.
“They did not work for us, and they were against the Muslim-Muslim ticket. They didn’t think about it during Jonathan, when the president, Senate president, and his assistant were all Christians. So now it’s time for the North, even in the North, for Barau Jibrin to be the Senate president. “This is our choice and what we are asking for,” he said.
He asked Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who is the National Chairman of the Party, to stop pushing for zoning, saying that northerners would not back it and that it wouldn’t be good for the party.
