The leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement and presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party in the 2023 general election, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has warned that Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, will regret his decision to part ways with the NNPP.
Kwankwaso stated this during an interview with the BBC Hausa Service, monitored by our correspondent in Kaduna on Wednesday, where he described Yusuf’s exit from the party as startling and difficult to explain.
The former Kano State governor said the development appeared puzzling, even to him, noting that the manner in which the governor and his allies left the NNPP had raised widespread suspicion.
He said, “Many people have approached me, suggesting that what happened might have been the result of some arrangement—either between the governor and myself or involving people around him. Honestly, there are times I also struggle to understand how events unfolded in that manner.”
Kwankwaso maintained that the full implications of the defection would become clearer with time, insisting that Yusuf and those who followed him out of the party would eventually realise the consequences of their action.
Governor Yusuf officially joined the All Progressives Congress on Monday, January 26, 2026, days after announcing his resignation fron thatNNPP on January 23.
His defection came less than three years after he clinched the Kano governorship seat on the platform of the NNPP, a party largely built around Kwankwaso’s political influence and the Kwankwasiyya movement.