New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Alhaji Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has said that he has no pact with former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and Labour Party’s Peter Obi.
According to him, he has not discussed any alliance with them, just as he dismissed a report that they had agreed on the order the three would be president one after the other.
Speaking to a BBC Hausa language programme on Monday, Kwankwaso, who lamented that a series of unpardonable deceptions had forced him and others out of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), also expressed disgust that some politicians, including those who have never done anything tangible for the North, are working hard to manipulate sentiments across the northern states in a desperate bid to seize political power in 2027.
“I got information from sources purporting that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and I have met, but what I know is that nobody contacted me, and I have not spoken with Atiku.
“Also, I have not spoken with Peter Obi because I have decided that until the end of this year (2024), it is better to allow state governments and the federal government to work for the people and apply their wisdom in governance.
“The most annoying thing is that I heard from a source the latest I have heard that some people in the PDP told a group of about 45 (Islamic) scholars that there is a consensus that Atiku will rule for four years, Kwankwaso will subsequently rule for four years and Peter Obi, eight years; this is totally untrue; it is not true.”
