Kano State Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Ibrahim Waiya, in this interview, speaks on insinuations that Governor Abba Yusuf’s defection amounts to betrayal. He says the governor’s fate in New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, was uncertain, making his movement to All Progressives Congress, APC, inevitable.
How true is it that the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, is experiencing an internal crisis?
Initially, the logo of the NNPP was a basket of fruits. Along the line, there was an attempt to change the logo to a book, which the founders felt breached agreements because they were not consulted. They approached the court. About two courts ruled against the book logo.
In Kano, we have three leaders, Hashim Dungurawa, Kwankwaso and Elmasud Doguwa. Even the fruit basket faction, at some point, said it suspended the governor, who was the only governor produced by the party. You should know that there is a serious crisis.
How would you remain in such a party where there is this kind of internal crisis? He decided to move because we knew we didn’t have a party. We knew it didn’t exist.
And the founder of the party, Mr. Boniface, at every fora expressed displeasure over the development and change of logo. You have the NNPP faction of Boniface and NNPP faction of Kwankwasiyya.
If you would recall, that was the genesis of the crisis, which led to the defection of people like Ali Madaki, Alhassan Rurum and others who said they belonged to the NNPP with a fruit basket logo before they eventually defected to another party.
But is Kwankwaso not aware of all these?
He is aware of all these, including all court rulings, among others.
How do you expect someone like the governor to remain in that kind of party? If you continue to remain there, what is your fate? In the near future, the party won’t be legally recognised.
