How Kwankwaso deceived me – Shekarau, dumps NNPP

A former Governor of Kano State Ibrahim Shekarau, has recounted his disappointing experience while in the fold of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), led by another former governor of Kano, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.

Shekarau narrated how he was betrayed and humiliated by Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of NNPP.

Addressing supporters at the Kano Foundation office, along Bayero University Road in Kano, on Monday, the Senator representing Kano Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly said that it was over for him in the New Nigeria Peoples Party, the SUN reports.

He regretted that while they allocated a party’s ticket to him upon his defection from the APC, none of his supporters that came along with him was given a ticket by the party.

Recounting the raw deal in the hands of Kwankwaso, Shekarau said on May 5, 2022, long before both of them joined NNPP, he personally met with Kwankwaso at his country home and discussed his intention to follow him to NNPP and he (Kwankwaso) expressed deep happiness.

“And still on 11th May 2022, I again met him – 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.

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“The proposal contained the list of my supporters seeking different elective offices, and when I reminded him about it, he said he was aware of it and definitely something would be done.

“Similarly, on 16th May 2022, Kwankwaso came to my house at about 9:00 pm 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 prior 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 list, and there was nothing he could do,” Shekarau recalled.

The former governor lamented that with all these and many more deceits, he has no place in New Nigeria Peoples Party, saying his idea of politics is to always go with his supporters adding that any attempt to throw them away would be vehemently rejected.