Chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Kano State, Hashimu Suleiman Dungurawa, has dismissed claims by the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state that the NNPP presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Senator Rabi’u Kwankwaso, is a political refugee seeking relevance.

He addressed newsmen in Kano on Thursday, saying contrary to APC’s claim that Kwankwaso has no political party right now, he is a bonafide member and national leader of the NNPP.

He further stated that Kwankwaso is a true democrat who never joined a ruling party, but had rather defected from a ruling party, the PDP, and joined in the formation of the APC which captured power in 2015.

“So, certainly Kwankwaso is not a political refugee as claimed by the APC.He is a true democrat that fights injustice and misrule and brings change to Nigeria,” he stated.

According to the chairman, the APC did not only capture power at the centre under President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, it also captured Kano and several other states, as well as state and National Assembly seats.

“All these were due the efforts of our leader, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, who will God willing, become the next president of Nigeria, come 2027.

“The NNPP would again defeat the APC in the 2027 general elections in the state, in a way bigger than in the 2023 general elections”

“We will ensure that the PDP gets less than the 15,000 votes it got in the 2023 general elections in the state,come 2027 general elections,” he added.

It would be recalled that the chairman of the Kano State chapter of the APC Abdullahi Abbas recently described Kwankwaso as a political refugee who had chosen to cling to Governor Abba Yusuf “like a leech in a futile attempt to regain relevance in the scheme of things in the country”

The chairman, who made the remark in a statement, also warned Kwankwaso that the APC would not allow “a repeat of the vote manipulation and allocation that created the impression that the NNPP is well-rooted in Kano State in the 2023 general elections.”

“Our teeming supporters in the APC have no cause to worry about Kwankwaso who has been booted out of the NNPP due to his cluelessness and self-centeredness.

“We expect Kwankwaso to keep wondering why he has become a wanderer in the political terrain,” Abbas declared.