Kwankwaso Speaks On Defection To APC

<h4>Kwankwaso Speaks On Defection To APC<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that Mohammed Rabi&&num;8217&semi;u Musa Kwankwaso&comma; a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Kano state from 1999 to 2003 as well as 2011 to 2015 and national leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party&comma; NNPP&comma; has spoken about growing discussions on defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress&comma; APC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Kano State Public Relations Officer of the All Progressives Congress&comma; Ahmed Aruwa&comma; had dismissed remarks by Kwankwaso&comma; that he was ready to return to the APC under certain conditions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Aruwa said that Kwankwaso’s claims were misleading and unacceptable&comma; insisting that the APC neither sought nor welcomed his return&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added that the proper way to join a political party was through formal procedures&comma; not by issuing public demands&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He disregarded the fact that joining a party has proper channels and procedures&period; If Kwankwaso wants to return&comma; he knows how to formally convey that&comma; not through public conditions&comma;” Aruwa said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The conditions we are hearing&comma; that our governorship ticket should be handed over to him or his candidate&comma; are totally unacceptable&period; The <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">APC<&sol;a> already has strong aspirants — Senator Barau Jibrin&comma; Dr Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna and AA Zaura&comma; among others&period; There is no vacancy for Kwankwaso’s conditions&comma;” he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But in a counter-reaction&comma; Kwankwaso’s long-time ally&comma; Buba Galadima&comma; said the former governor had no plan to join the APC&comma; stressing that his comments had been misinterpreted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nobody will tell Kwankwaso politics&period; I believe there is a merger&comma; but we are not in a hurry to merge with any party&comma;” Galadima said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to him&comma; Kwankwaso was only responding to agitations from some of his NNPP members who were pushing to defect to the APC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But reacting to the series of insinuations in the public space&comma; Kwankwaso said&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>We have been alerted to some online statements suggesting that we have submitted a letter of intent to join a political party in the country&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>We would like to clarify that we have not made any such submission to any party&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>The public is therefore advised to stay informed of any further information regarding our matter through the established official channels&period; – RMK<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;