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I’m not in any way part of an alliance that will require me to step down from the race. I therefore call on the public to disregard this mischievous conjecture.

I also specifically appeal to the media to uphold the tenets of their profession by being fair in their reportage.

I’m not in any way part of an alliance that will require me to step down from the race. I therefore call on the public to disregard this mischievous conjecture.

I also specifically appeal to the media to uphold the tenets of their profession by being fair in their reportage. pic.twitter.com/b8y7FT1QV3

— Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (@KwankwasoRM) August 27, 2022

A former Governor of Kano State and Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso has explained why his alliance with Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party collapsed.

Kwankwaso, who spoke in an exclusive interview with NEWS CENTRAL TV which was monitored by DAILY INDEPENDENT said he turned down the request to serve as running mate to Obi because the mood of the North does not support a Southern presidency.

According to him, most northerners wanted power to remain in the North even after President Muhammadu Buhari must have completed his eight years in office

When told that many young Nigerians were unhappy with him that the planned alliance with Obi failed, Kwankwaso said: “Yes, I did everything possible for that alliance to work for many obvious reasons. In Kwankwassiya, we are not in a hurry.

“In 2007, I could have tried to contest to become president because I was better qualified than almost everybody that contested at that particular time. I was a civil servant for 17 years; I was deputy speaker for the House of Reps; I was at the time the elected delegate for the Constitutional Conference of 2004-2005.

“I was governor of Kano for four years; I was Minister of Defence and to become president, is to become the president and Commander-in-Chief. This aspect of Commander-in-Chief is very important even in the military, to establish relationships with them and know them.

“We have already done that at that time. We were very close to each other and respect ourselves. But I was not in a hurry and I said I wanted to go back to Kano while many of my colleagues that were governors between 1999 and 2007 were all contesting to become president, I said I wanted to go back to Kano to finish that one term.

“After doing all that, the next thing was to contest for presidency and that was what I did in 2015 because I was in the game and of course, in any business you want to progress. Our people who know our value and capacity were putting all sorts of pressure that we should go and take it”.

“The issue at that particular time was that in Northern Nigeria, there is what we call ‘mood’ at any election cycle. In fact, if you look at it in 1992/1993 when MKO Abiola contested to be president of this country, the mood at that time was for us to support the South and that was exactly what we did.

“Coincidentally, I came from Kano and Bashir Tofa, the NRC presidential candidate also came from Kano and we are from the same polling booth and he was defeated there and in the ward, local government, state and Northern Nigeria.

“In 1999, I was governor-elect when Obasanjo, Ekwueme and others contested. Abubakar Rimi was there and he wanted to become president. We all believed that he was qualified but the mood was for the presidency to go to the South. We went to the Jos convention and we voted 100 percent for Obasanjo. The same thing in 2003.

“At the moment, the mood in the North today is that the presidency should be in the North. That is why I couldn’t accept to be his running mate.”

kay1one:
God bless you.

Divide the Northern votes well.

We Obi supporters need am badly

Trinitycian:

I’m not in any way part of an alliance that will require me to step down from the race. I therefore call on the public to disregard this mischievous conjecture.

I also specifically appeal to the media to uphold the tenets of their profession by being fair in their reportage. pic.twitter.com/b8y7FT1QV3

— Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (@KwankwasoRM) August 27, 2022

https://independent.ng/2023-why-my-planned-alliance-with-peter-obi-failed-kwankwaso/

SpecialAdviser:
I do not have the doubt that this is the same reason the northern governors preferred sick Tinubu to energetic Osibanjo.

We all saw how Tinubu is a placeholder for Shettima at the just concluded NBA conference.

But how long shall we continue to slaughter our collective progress on the altar of tribalism and nepotism. Sane Nigerians and most Northerners are tired of this power play. We need progress. Even the north is suffering just like every other Nigerians.

Obidatti our only hope.

LeoDeKing:
Lol.

Las las, Kwankwaso will give way.

Step down or not, Ganduje is there to do the homework.

Dreambeat:
Arant nonsense from a clown. I guess he and his northerners should form their own and continue ruling themselves. After 8 years of the worst thing to ever happen to Nigeria, they want to continue from where the monumental failure of a thing stopped. Greedy fellows. It's either a Southern presidency or kiss the oil money goodbye, bloody parasites!

MadeInTokyo:
Kwankwaso is Atikulated, when the time comes Tinubu zombies eye go clear.
Atiku will win the North comfortably in February 2023---Tinubu zombies can quote me

ImmaculateJOE:

You are in the spirit..
Northern votes must be divided by 4.. Obi will definitely take it's share.

iSense247:
Northern muslims votes to be divided into four. Obi has twenty-five percent of northern muslim votes while almost all christians votes go to Obi.

Trinitycian:

I’m not in any way part of an alliance that will require me to step down from the race. I therefore call on the public to disregard this mischievous conjecture.

I also specifically appeal to the media to uphold the tenets of their profession by being fair in their reportage. pic.twitter.com/b8y7FT1QV3

— Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (@KwankwasoRM) August 27, 2022

https://independent.ng/2023-why-my-planned-alliance-with-peter-obi-failed-kwankwaso/

Kagd10:
Then the North will rule themselves. It's simple.