The Chairman, Kano State chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Abdullahi Abass has hit back at the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso.

Abbas urged him to channel his energies towards reclaiming his membership in the NNPP, and not daydreaming over claims to relegate the APC in the state.

Abass, in a statement issued to newsmen in Kano on Thursday, described as laughable the claim by the former Kano State governor and “so-called leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement” to diminish APC’s influence in the state.

He said its supporters have no cause to worry about Kwankwaso, “who has been booted out of NNPP due to his cluelessness and self-centeredness”.

He warned Kwankwaso and his ilks that it would not allow a repeat of the vote manipulation and allocation that created the impression that the NNPP is well rooted in Kano state in the 2023 general election.“We expect Kwankwaso to keep wondering why he has become a wanderer in the political terrain.“He ran away from APC because he couldn’t fit into our progressive ideals. His over-bloated ego and domineering posture forced him to abandon the PDP and he has now become a political refugee because the NNPP refused to accommodate him,” he said.

Abass assured that the APC is already waiting in the wings to not only reclaim Kano state, but also “save the people of the state from the undue influence of Kwankwaso from his Miller Road castle”.

Recall that Kwankwaso had, while receiving delegates of the NNPP from the Kano North senatorial district at his Miller Road Mansion in Kano, said his party (NNPP) will work tirelessly to ensure that the APC struggle to secure less than 15,000 votes in the state like it relegated the People’s Democratic Party, PDP to struggle for only 15,000 votes in the 2023 general elections.