* Rates Umahi, Wike better
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has sensationally claimed that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are fielding ‘weak’ candidates for the 2023 presidential election.
Kwankwaso stated this, on Wednesday, when he paid a courtesy call to the Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, at the Presidential Lodge, Old Government House Abakaliki, as part of his tour to different states of the country to campaign for votes ahead of the 2023 election.
The former governor of Kano State was accompanied to Ebonyi State by an elder statesman and social critic, Alhaji Buba Galadima, to commission the party’s campaign office in Abakaliki.
Kwankwaso asserted that he would have been happy if Umahi got the APC presidential ticket, while his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, got the PDP ticket.
The NNPP candidate noted that he and Umahi left the PDP because of its many wrongs.
He, however, maintained that Nigeria needs a competent leader who will pull it from the brinks.
Kwankwaso said: “We formed APC and produced the president in 2015, unfortunately, what we were angry with PDP became worse in APC.
“NNPP is the party to beat in the North because there is no APC in the North. APC has failed the nation. We are so happy that strong candidates did not get the ticket of their parties.”