The National Chairman of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, Agbo Gilbert Major, has accused former Kano State Governor, Rabi’u Kwankwaso, of using the party as a bargaining platform to advance his personal political interests.
Major made the allegation on Tuesday while appearing as a guest on an interview programme aired by Trust TV.
Kwankwaso, who contested the 2023 presidential election under the NNPP platform, is currently the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of next year’s general elections.
Speaking during the interview, Major said, “As the image maker of the party, I was not part of what they were doing.
“And at a point when I raised the alarm that it never appeared to me as if Kwankwaso was running for any election. He went to a few states when other candidates were campaigning. He went to a few states, and then he abandoned the entire Southeast, the entire Southwest, and all of that.
“He only went to Kano. So it became clear to me that his interest was Kano, and then maybe part of Jigawa state and all of that.
“But the truth is that he only used the party as a bargaining chip for himself. That’s exactly what happened.
“We are still alive. We just concluded the uploading of our National Assembly candidates and our presidential candidate,” he said.
