Planned defection: Kano govt forcing officials to sign for APC – Kwankwaso

The Leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement and the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has accused the Kano State Government of allegedly compelling state officials to sign for defection to the All Progressives Congress.

Kwankwaso made this allegation on his verified social media handles, saying, “I have received several news, some good ones, but some so terrible. I received reports that Kano State Government is compelling state officials and elected local government chairmen to sign for either Gandujiyya or Kwankwasiyya.

“Every of our supporters would not take this lightly. It is so disheartening that government would go down so low to be doing this”.

But in a swift reaction to the allegations, the Kano State Commissioner for Information, Ibrahim Waiya, said there was no truth in the claim.

According to Waiya, “What exactly happened is that our party is asking everybody, not only government officials, who is willingly and ready to join APC to do so, but not compelling as reported”.

The commissioner insisted that nobody was compelled or forced to act against their political wishes, emphasising that Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf believes in freedom of association and membership.

But Kwankwaso, in the clip, asked his supporters and followers to freely join the APC if they so wished.

“You should sign any documents given to you for the defection to the APC; I have no problems with that”, he said.