Kano Guber: APC’s Petition ‘Sacrificed’ as Kwankwaso, Tinubu Strike Deal in France
It’s no longer news that New Nigeria People’s Party Presidential Candidate Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso met with the President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday in Paris.
At the centre of the discussion, TheCable, an online newspaper understands, was the potential involvement of Kwankwaso in the incoming administration as Tinubu plans to form a “government of national unity” which means giving certain positions to opposition parties.
But POLITICS DIGEST reliably gathered that the meeting took place at the request of Kwankwaso not Tinubu.
The real reason behind the meeting was a a proposal to work with Tinubu on condition that he will ask the All Progressives Congress and its gubernatorial candidate in Kano Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna to withdraw their petition at the election tribunal.
The former governor was said to be scared with the grounds of All Progressives Congress in the tribunal and realised that the only way out for him and the governor-elect is to seek for a soft landing.
Tinubu and his allies are always dogged in court cases, his party the defunct ACN secured their governorship mandate in Osun, Ekiti and Edo even when the president-elect was not occupying any seat.
Bola Tinubu was said to be amazed with Kwankwaso’s proposal of willing to work with him when it was same Kwankwaso that he sent a powerful delegation of a former member of the House of Representatives and Minister a week to election, to plead and convince him to withdraw from the presidential race and support him.
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Kwankwaso declined the offer aggressively and even called Tinubu names.
Tinubu did that because of the momentum the candidate of the Labour Party Peter Obi was gaining in the South at that time.
He wanted to neutralise the North with Kwankwaso at the eve of election.
Kwankwaso who won 1,496,687 votes demanded the cancellation of the 2023 presidential election through the Chairman of his party, NNPP Rufai Alkali.
Mr Alkali said with the way it conducted the election, INEC had taken the country back to the pre-2015 era.
Seeing that the grounds of the All Progressives Congress are heavy, he quickly requested for an audience with the President-elect to seek for his intervention over the matter.
Kwankwaso told the president-elect Bola Tinubu that he’s not doubting his victory, that’s why he is not at the tribunal to challenge it like Atiku and Peter Obi.
Part of the grounds of the All Progressives Congress at the tribunal in Kano are:
The governor-elect Abba Kabir Yusuf is not qualified to contest the election as at the time of the election because his name is not in the register of members of NNPP submitted to INEC.
By the provision of the 1999 constitution, for someone to qualify to contest for office of Governor, the person must be a member of political party and must be sponsored by that political party.
POLITICS DIGEST reliably gathered thaf Abba said the contrary under oath in his Form EC9 submitted to INEC where he quoted a membership card number which is not in existence.
It’s evident that some ballot box were stuffed with unsigned and unstamped ballot papers in favour of the NNPP.
