Former Kano State Governor and 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service on Monday, rejected claims of a secret agreement involving a rotational presidency with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi.
Kwankwaso categorically stated that he has not communicated with either Atiku or Obi recently and denied the existence of any such arrangement.
The former NNPP presidential candidate emphasized his decision to maintain political neutrality for the remainder of the year. According to him, this stance allows current administrations to focus on governance without unnecessary political distractions.
He said, “For me to accept any arrangement, we have to go back to history; I understand PDP in totality.
“I know their plan is to procure a party or be beating around the bush in other parties, bring us together, and make northerners vote for them.
“But what we are asking them is what have they done to the North? These are the kinds of things that will come into play. But in my mind, we have witnessed the worst of humiliation from these people.
“We loved this party; we wanted to rejig it so that we could prosper, but they made us to leave by force. Kwankwaso left, Peter Obi left, Wike left and others too, there is no estimate to those who left. Yet, they are the same people coming now to the fore expressing interest to be made president.
“This is appalling; maybe they are remorseful, or they are thinking they want to seek forgiveness or something related to that, but we have really been humiliated by those people.”
He further said, “I heard from a source that PDP brought in scholars—about 45 of them—and claimed there was a consensus that Atiku will rule for four years, I will rule for another four years, and Peter Obi will rule for eight years. This is a complete lie and has no basis in reality.”
