By Hassan Adamu
Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has publicly disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made repeated personal efforts to persuade him to rejoin the All Progressives Congress (APC), a party he helped found but later left due to what he described as its abandonment of justice and principle.
In a fiery press statement released on Sunday, the former Kano State governor and 2023 presidential candidate revealed that President Tinubu contacted him directly and through intermediaries, offering sweeping concessions to bring him back into the APC fold. "All terms will be fulfilled; all conditions will be like pupils in your hands,” Tinubu reportedly assured him.
Kwankwaso, however, said he unequivocally rejected the offer, stating, “I would rather quit politics entirely than return to the APC, a party that has inflicted immense hardship on Nigerians.” He described the APC under both President Buhari and President Tinubu as having “failed to address the core challenges confronting Nigerians,” including insecurity, poverty, youth unemployment, economic collapse, and rampant corruption.
In a bold political declaration, Kwankwaso announced that he is working with “like-minded patriots” to build a broad-based political movement to challenge the status quo and defeat the APC in the 2027 elections. He emphasized that the movement would focus not just on elections but on “uprooting the politics of deception and replacing it with one of hope, vision, and action.”
He further warned that no amount of elite bargain or propaganda would suppress the will of the Nigerian people come 2027, declaring that the suffering and frustration of citizens transcends ethnicity, religion, or region.
“My loyalty is to Nigeria, not to political parties that have failed her,” Kwankwaso said, reinforcing his stance as a politician of conviction rather than convenience.
The explosive statement is already stirring reactions across Nigeria’s political landscape, raising questions about future alignments and the shape of opposition politics in the run-up to 2027.
