I’m done with NNPP, Kwankwaso failed us – Shekarau

Former Kano Governor Senator Ibrahim Shekarau on Monday officially dumped the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), saying he was done with the new party.

Shekarau, senatorial candidate of the NNPP in the 2023 general election, said he moved out of the party because his followers were denied forms to also pursue their political ambitions.

“I am done with NNPP,” he told a crowd of supporters at the Kano Foundation office along BUK road on Monday.

“All the agreements we had with him were betrayed by Kwankwaso and his boys and they did not accommodate one single person from my camp,” he said.

“We reached an agreement to accommodate my supporters into various elective positions in the party, but until now, the committee set up could not accommodate one single person apart from the senatorial slot given to me.

“I will never be a party to injustice. My integrity is utmost and not any political position that will make me compromise it and that of my people. Nobody will use position or money against my integrity.

“I am a man of honour and integrity but his governorship candidate (Abba Kabir Yusuf) who was given the responsibility to look at areas to accommodate my people into various elective positions never for one single day do so or even call for meeting talk less of accepting my supporters to contest.

“Nobody will use money to change my conscience. I was a governor for eight years in Kano and people believed in my integrity.

“I am still living in a rented house in Abuja and never allocated a single plot of land to myself when I served as Governor in Kano and I challenged anyone who knows my plot of land to expose it.”

The lawmaker, who is reportedly mulling an exit from the NNPP, said his next line of action would be communicated to his followers soon.

Though Shekarau did not mention the party he intends to move to, some APC members on Monday jubilated expecting Shekarau to rejoin the party.

“Shekarau is scheduled to meet with the APC presidential candidate, Senator Ahmad Bola Tunubu, who wants him to return to the APC, where he jumped ship to the NNPP because he was denied second-term ticket,” a source said.