The presidential of the New Nigerians People’s Party NNPP Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso has said today that he can’t be a vice president to the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi thus making their possible merger complicated.
The LP and NNPP have been Assessing every possibility for the two parties to merge in order to ensure power shift from both APC and PDP in forthcoming Nigeria’s general election in 2023.
The newly formed political party NNPP by Rabiu Kwankwaso is gaining mass adoption, particularly in the northern part of the country while the labour party’s candidate Peter Obi is been uphold by the youth.
Sen. Kwankwaso while inaugurating an office for the party in Gombe said that his political profile, experience and performance during his reign as a civil servant and political office is the key reason he is able to make the NNPP gain massive popularity across the country within a short time and that any position apart from presidency will be a failure to the party
“From the discussion with Labour Party, the main issue was who becomes the president if the parties merge.
“At the end of the day, some of our representatives thought that there should be criteria in terms of age, qualification, offices held, performance and so on.
“Of course, the other side wouldn’t want that. Most of the people from there believe that presidency has to go there (South-East)
“If now I decide to be vice presidential candidate to anybody in this country; NNPP will collapse because the party is based on what we have built in the last 30 years
“I served for 17 years as a civil servant; we are talking of 47 years of very serious hard work, that is what is really holding NNPP now,” he said.
