The interior disaster rocking the New Nigeria People’s Celebration (NNPP) escalated on Monday after the Senator representing Kano Central, Rufai Sani Hanga, described the reported plan by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a deep betrayal.
Talking in Hausa, Hanga who’s the one NNPP Senator from Kano, warned that Kano people have by no means supported leaders who flip towards those that helped them rise.
He stated these encouraging the governor to transfer to the APC don’t have his finest pursuits at coronary heart.
“In fact, all these gathering to name on Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf to be part of the APC aren’t his buddies,” Hanga stated.
“Anybody who actually loves him wouldn’t ask Abba to betray the people of Kano, the North, and Nigeria particularly at the moment of gas subsidy elimination and new tax reforms.”
The Senator additionally reminded the governor of his lengthy political relationship with NNPP chief, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, stressing that Abba Yusuf’s political rise was constructed below his mentorship.
“Anybody who loves Abba wouldn’t ask him to be ungrateful to Kwankwaso” Hanga acknowledged.
“He mentored him from when he ‘had no tooth’ till he grew to become what he’s immediately… Is he so determined for a place that he would enable everybody to perish?”
Hanga warned that defecting to the APC wouldn’t sit well with Kano voters, whom he stated worth loyalty.
He dismissed claims that Kwankwaso may secretly help the transfer, describing such studies as “theatre”.
“In Kano, we don’t cheer for betrayal; we pity the betrayed. You can not betray somebody and impress the people of Kano. If I see Abba, I’ll advise him to punish everybody searching for for him to betray Kwankwaso,” he stated.
Reaffirming his personal loyalty, the senator added: “I’m with Kwankwaso 1,000%, till loss of life. No elected official can be as silly proper now as these planning to be part of the APC.”
The recent warning comes hours after the NNPP chairman in Kano, Hashim Dungurawa, publicly appealed to Governor Yusuf to stay within the occasion, admitting that holding the occasion collectively had develop into troublesome.
